Your costs are someone else's revenue

Your costs are someone else’s revenue.

When it comes to your healthcare spend, ask yourself: is it being managed as an expense to be optimized or as revenue to maximize? If you’re not affirmatively doing the former, I promise you someone is doing the latter.

The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) exists to help hospitals protect and grow revenue — so when they talk about “cost pressures,” it’s important to remember that they are advocating from the hospital finance perspective. They want to increase hospital payment rates.

That lens came through in the latest Voices in Healthcare Finance episode, where HFMA noted:

“And now before we go, just one more thing. Watch those commercial plans. Employers and payers are looking to target hospital costs because they say recent changes have made those a bigger source of ongoing cost increases for them.

Payers say hospitals are pushing the cost on them from sustained inflation and labor, supplies and overhead. Additionally, hospitals are seeking higher commercial rates to offset stagnant or declining Medicare and Medicaid payment. And finally, hospital improvements in the revenue cycle management process has created additional cost pressures for payers.”

If you’re not managing your costs, someone else is managing you as revenue.

From HFMA’s Voices in Healthcare Finance: Fast Finance: MA impact on hospital margins, Sep 17, 2025
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