Hfma's Voices In Healthcare Finance

Nick Hut and Shawn Stack discuss the latest in healthcare finance news. Erika Grotto talks with Jonathan Wiik of FinThrive about how a great patient experience and AI can go together. Also in this episode, a fond farewell to Shawn as he departs the podcast and HFMA.

Nick Hut and Shawn Stack discuss notable regulatory and legislative developments in price transparency including April 1 enforcement of new requirements.

Nick Hut and Katie Gilfillan discuss a new accountable care organization model on deck for 2027.

Nick and Shawn discuss regulatory changes coming from CMS for the 2027 regulatory season.

Katie Gilfillan discusses a noteworthy new payment model from CMS, and Nick and Shawn review of key healthcare aspects of the FY26 budget bill.

Nick and Shawn discuss appropriations efforts and how various provisions will affect hospitals, specifically in outpatient department claims.

Nick Hut and Shawn Stack kick off the year by discussing the expired subsidies for ACA coverage as well as developments in the 340B drug program and price transparency.

HFMA's FastFinance newsletter is now a podcast. Host Rich Daly discusses the most current and relevant healthcare news, delivered in an easily digestible format. A list of alleged financial harms against hospitals are at the heart of Texas' anticompetitive lawsuit again EHR vendor Epic. Learn why its details are required reading. Also, this week’s Weird Number: 40%. That’s how much higher the year-to-date bad debt and charity care per day are for hospitals compared to their year-to-date amount in 2022. One More Thing: HHS is appealing the recent pause from a federal judge of the 340B rebate model. Not a FastFinance subscriber? Learn more ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Nick Hut and Shawn Stack discuss what's coming in healthcare in 2026 with Katie Gilfillan from HFMA's policy team.

HFMA policy director Katie Gilfillan joins Nick Hut and Shawn Stack as they discuss the Medicare physician fee schedule for 2026. Also in this episode, Nick and Shawn analyze the hospital OPPS Medicare payment update for 2026.

HFMA's FastFinance newsletter is now a podcast. Host Rich Daly discusses the most current and relevant healthcare news, delivered in an easily digestible format. As states are increasingly requiring pre-screening patients for charity care, a recent industry outreach effort gauged hospital interest and approaches. Also, this week’s Weird Number: 500,000. That’s how many people quit their jobs in healthcare or social assistance in August—the latest month with a breakdown on that from the Labor Department. One More Thing: A new lawsuit seeks to stop the Jan. 1 launch of the 340B rebate model. Hospitals filed a lawsuit against the federal government Dec. 1, seeking to halt implementation of the planned 340B rebate model before it begins. Not a FastFinance subscriber? Learn more ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠⁠⁠

HFMA’s FastFinance newsletter is now a podcast. Host Rich Daly discusses the most current and relevant healthcare news, delivered in an easily digestible format. Former hospital executives detail an approach that helped their organization improve quality while obtaining average commercial rates of 150% of Medicare. Also, this week’s Weird Number: $10 billion. The amount Medicare was expected to spend this year for provision of skin substitutes — one of the treatments on which a new prior authorization model will focus. One More Thing: Details of the recently issued hospital outpatient payment rule from Medicare, which carries significant financial ramifications. Not a FastFinance subscriber? Learn more ⁠⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠⁠

This week, we're sharing an episode of our patient-facing program, HiFi Health News. In this episode, host Erika Grotto talks with Ruchi Talwar, MD from Vanderbilt University Medical Center about how to save money on prescription drugs. For all of our content, subscribe to the HiFi Health News podcast on your favorite app, or see all our videos on YouTube.

Employers have a new data source that combines price, quality and safety data and was expected to fuel a renewed push on direct contracting. Also, this week’s Weird Number: 30%. Fewer than 30% of health systems earned significant ROI from most of their virtual care offerings, according to a recent survey of executives by Sage Growth Partners. One More Thing: Healthcare CFOs describe in an HFMA survey how they expect AI to change executive leadership at their organizations. Not a FastFinance subscriber? Learn more ⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠

Nick Hut and Shawn Stack sum up the latest in healthcare finance news.

In the final episode of our technology series sponsored by Philips, Erika speaks with Stacy Kelleher from Philips about data opportunities in patient monitoring and how telemetry can be used more effectively.

HFMA Senior Editor Nick Hut and HFMA Policy Director Shawn Stack discuss the latest in healthcare finance news.

Patients have access to more data than ever, but there can be confusion when they try to interpret it. In this week's episode, we speak with Tim Church, MD from Wondr Health and Jonathan Henderson from Encore Rehabilitation.

In the first episode of this special series sponsored by Philips, HFMA Senior Editor Erika Grotto talks with Taylor Seale of Epic and Jeff Gautney from Rush University System for Health about planning and prioritizing technology projects.

HFMA Senior Editor Nick Hut and HFMA Policy Director Shawn Stack discuss the latest in healthcare finance news.