Healthcare Financial Management

In an August 31, 2026, letter to CMS, HFMA submitted comments pertaining to the CY 2027 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center proposed rule. HFMA evaluates payment policy against five principles of an effective payment system: quality, alignment of incentives, fairness and sustainability, simplification, and societal benefit.

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CST Is your organization demonstrating excellence in revenue cycle performance? Learn how the 2027 HFMA MAP Award can recognize your team’s achievements and elevate your organization’s success. This webinar will walk through the application process, award criteria, key dates and deadlines, and what you need to know to prepare a strong submission.

The continuing resolution (CR) passed by both houses of Congress ensures the federal government will remain fully operational into December, and it also freezes implementation of a noteworthy change to grant-approval processes. Until the CR’s Dec. 11 expiration date, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is blocked from finalizing a previously proposed rule regarding oversight of federal grants.

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Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST Not every revenue cycle workflow needs artificial intelligence, and applying it where rules-based automation already works can add unnecessary cost and complexity. This webinar explains how healthcare finance and revenue cycle leaders can determine which work is best suited for traditional automation, agentic AI or human expertise.

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST Provider reimbursement is increasingly being shaped through regulation, litigation, political pressure and competing payer/provider narratives. This webinar describes what is changing with the No Surprises Act and the political and policy issues surrounding it, as well as what providers can control.

Acute care hospitals are taking steps to incorporate a new worksheet in their Medicare cost reporting. Effective for cost-reporting periods that end on or after Jan. 1, 2026, most hospitals paid under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) must fill out Worksheet S-12. An analysis by Baker Tilly notes that the worksheet is the first addition to the S series since 2016.

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A proposed cut in Medicare payments for 340B drugs and an acceleration in repayments related to a previous 340B cut are leading concerns for some hospitals and health systems. The two 340B policies in the proposed rule for the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) were among a range of provisions in the 299-page rule issued July 2. For some organizations, those 340B provisions dominated their concerns in comments sent to CMS ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline.

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