HFMA’s FastFinance helps busy healthcare finance leaders and investors quickly digest the latest news and trends. Through forward-leaning, on-point analysis, award-winning editor and journalist Rich Daly will help you tackle the issues at play within dense payment rules, financial reports, research, proposed policies, court decisions and other developments. Sign up for the Fast Finance newsletter at https://www.hfma.org/fast-finance/fastfinance-hfma-cfo-newsletter.
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 proposed rule to implement provider tax provisions of the
2025 Medicaid overhaul would be far more strictive than that law required, according to hospital advocates.
Also, this week’s Weird Number: $1 billion. That was how much Medicare WOULD save on 2027 payment rates under the Clinical
Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) based on an INITIAL methodology used to set the rates.
One More Thing: CMS has canceled roughly 315,000 enrollments encompassing 760,000 people in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans, citing suspected fraud and the numbers soon could grow.
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9 Sept 2026
Sept. 9: Physician unionization; Funds for rural hospitals
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.
Physician union activity is picking up this year, including at an unexpected health system. What's driving it?
Also, this week’s Weird Number: $2.5 million. That’s the average annual cost per hospital of denied claims stemming from inaccurate patient identification or information, according to a Black Book survey.
One More Thing: Rural hospitals have struggled in some instances to meet the paperwork requirements of the new federal rural health transformation program.
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26 Aug 2026
Aug. 26: Health system OBBBA tactics; DSH court victory
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 seven-state health system has garnered federal rural funding under the 2025 federal healthcare overhaul, even as it prepares for adverse impacts next year.
Also, this week’s Weird Number: $1.8 trillion. That’s the amount that Medicare and Medicaid cost the federal government in FY24, and was more than 26% of total federal spending that year, according to CMS actuaries.
One More Thing: Hospitals obtained a victory in a recent ruling over Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments. It could mean big money for hospitals in certain states.
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