Financial Management
Hospitals are assessing revenue-cycle management performance, employing best practices and using analytics and automation to ensure financial health.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) welcomes the opportunity to comment on ways to ensure patients can receive timely emergency medical care, particularly in rural and underserved areas. We share the committee’s interest in ensuring that Americans have high-quality, affordable health care in…
This guide supports hospital leaders seeking to make their organization more environmentally sustainable through actionable strategies and resources.
In this episode, host John Riggi, National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk at the AHA is joined by Ty Greenhalgh, Industry Principal for Medigate by Claroty; Skip Sorrels, Director of Cybersecurity for Ascension; and Greg Garneau, Chief Information Security Officer for Marshfield Clinic. In this…
Many hospitals including those in rural and underserved areas are experiencing unprecedented challenges that jeopardize access and services. Here are a series of proposals and suggestions for the Ways and Means Committee to consider as it looks for avenues to broaden access to health care for…
Emerging research has confirmed what hospitals and health systems have been saying again and again and again – that 2022 was among the most financially challenging year the hospital field has experienced, and that recovery remains challenging.
July saw the continued worsening of hospitals’ finances, according to a new Kaufman Hall report.
Health care leaders are finding new ways to strengthen performance through innovative approaches, while improving care, quality and patient safety. In this conversation hear how Johns Hopkins is using innovation to ensure long-term financial stability while managing day-to-day struggles. This…
How to plan, execute and accelerate redesigned health care dominated discussions at the recent AHA Leadership Summit in Seattle, as hospital and health system leaders, retail care providers, innovators and entrepreneurs came together to assess what’s next for the field.
“Some analyses seem to suggest that anything above a zero percent margin is inherently bad, as though the operating goal of hospitals and health systems should be to incur financial losses,” write AHA’s Bharath Krishnamurthy, director of policy and health analytics, and Benjamin Finder, director of…