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A new KFF Health Tracking Poll shows nearly one in four adults report difficulty paying for their medications in the past year. No patient should have to choose between their health and their financial stability. Learn how Cedar Cover helps patients like Katie afford their life-saving care and remove financial stress https://lnkd.in/eBCqD3pu

Healthcare's affordability crisis is escalating fast, and revenue cycle leaders need a new playbook. Ryann Holloway, SVP of Revenue Cycle at Mindpath Health, has lived through healthcare's biggest disruptions over the past two decades. Here's what she thinks providers have to get right in the coming years 👇 Full conversation: https://lnkd.in/e_HPHDcT

Healthcare finance leaders can’t choose between mission and margin. They have to deliver both. In a panel of CFOs moderated by Rebecca Harrington of LI - The Leadership Institute at this year’s Financial Leadership Council, Rob McMurray of ChristianaCare, Cheryl Sadro of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Sharon M. Kelley of Mayo Clinic unpacked the biggest pressures shaping the future of healthcare finance. The consensus was clear that financial leaders must balance mission and margin by: 🔹 Leveraging automation to free teams for higher-value work 🔹 Reinvesting savings into what patients truly need 🔹 Staying steady amid payer volatility and operational uncertainty. Or, as one panelist reflected, healthcare providers don’t have the luxury of choosing one over the other.

Happy, healthy customers strengthen the balance sheet. At last month's Financial Leadership Council, Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA reminded us that the best algorithm won’t win the future of healthcare — it will be built by the organizations that use AI to bring trust back. In a wide-ranging fireside chat, Dr. Nayyar — physician, technologist, and bestselling author — challenged financial leaders to see trust not as a soft skill, but as both a public health and financial asset. Her message was simple but urgent ➡️ misinformation, opaque systems, and affordability barriers are eroding confidence in healthcare. The next generation of healthcare finance leaders isn’t measured by cost to collect, but by how well they connect patients to care.

At this year’s Financial Leadership Council, Scott Kupor — former Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz — joined Cedar CEO Florian Otto for a conversation on how macroeconomic forces and government priorities are reshaping the healthcare landscape. His outlook was cautiously optimistic: → AI is a deflationary force — with the potential to drive long-term sustainability even as costs rise elsewhere. → Innovation still meets friction — bureaucracy continues to slow progress, but policy modernization is underway. → Leadership matters most — incremental changes, paired with bold, risk-tolerant leaders, can create lasting impact.

The government shutdown is over, but healthcare’s affordability crisis is only getting worse. With ACA subsidies set to expire, millions of patients are at risk of becoming self-pay in disguise. They might have insurance, but higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs mean they still can’t afford care. Providers must find better ways to identify who needs help and what will actually make a difference before patients fall into bad debt. We mapped out one approach 👇 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eP8FcCHt

You can't solve healthcare's hardest problems from behind a screen. That's why we embed forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) with client teams—seeing the work up close, iterating fast, and building solutions that actually work. Case in point: We tackled COB issues and helped one client increase reimbursement by 30% from overturned denials. Those insights are now built into our platform, rolling out across our client base. And that's just one example. Learn how we bring FDEs to every client engagement: https://lnkd.in/etGEWVNr

Modern Healthcare highlights what our data makes clear 👇 Self-pay patient responsibility has risen 11% since early 2023, and nearly 40% of collectible dollars now come from patients without insurance. As Cedar President Seth Cohen put it: “There’s a ceiling on what health systems can extract from payers. The most elastic lever for both financial sustainability and patient trust is improving the experience for self-pay patients.” The affordability crisis is here. Hospitals that simplify and humanize the financial experience will be the ones that lead through it. 🔗 Read more in Modern Healthcare from Alex Kacik ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g2QnqHnJ