FREE RESOURCES FOR HEALTHCARE CFOs
Expert insights, proven frameworks, and practical tools from 25+ years
of executive healthcare finance leadership. Download white papers, guides, and templates to strengthen your organization's financial performance. All resources are completely free. No credit card required.
White Papers
Revenue Cycle Optimization: Maximizing Hospital Margins Through Optimized Revenue Cycle Management
Key Strategies Across the Patient Journey
Learn how to strengthen financial performance through 10 critical touchpoints - from patient scheduling to collections follow-up. Based on proven strategies from leading billion-dollar health systems.
What's Inside:
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Front-end accuracy strategies
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Mid-cycle integrity protocols
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Back-end discipline frameworks
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Denial management best practices
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Payer contract negotiation tactics
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Real data points from major health systems
Hospital Financial Leadership: Mastering the Hospital Budget Process Strategies for Consistent Resource Optimization
A practical guide to building a disciplined, strategic budget process that aligns financial resources with organizational goals — and keeps performance improvements from slipping away
What's Inside:
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8-step hospital budget planning process
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Financial health assessment framework
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Revenue & expense projection methods
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Volume driver analysis strategies
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Performance gap identification techniques
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Budget hearings & change request process
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Variance management & continuous monitoring
Tools & Frameworks
Revenue Cycle Model
Most hospitals know their revenue cycle is broken. Few know exactly where it breaks down.
This framework maps the complete revenue cycle across three domains - Patient Access Services, Patient Care Services, and Patient Financial Services - showing the key processes at each stage and, more importantly, the problems that silently drain revenue at each touchpoint.
Use this model to identify gaps, align your team around a shared language, and build a targeted performance improvement plan
The Claims Process
A claim leaves your hospital. Then what?
This diagram demystifies what happens between submission and payment - tracing the flow between health providers, clearinghouses, outsourced vendors, and health plans. From eligibility verification and pretreatment authorization through adjudication and electronic funds transfer, every handoff is mapped.
If your denial rates are climbing or your AR days are creeping up, start here.
Derrick Hollings in Global Healthcare Magazine
"Turning Financial Complexity into Clarity,
One Community Hospital at a Time"
Read the full cover story about Derrick's 25+ year journey navigating the financial complexities of major health systems and founding Hollings Consulting Group to bring executive-level CFO expertise to mid-sized hospitals and community health organizations.
Featured insights:
• Why mid-sized hospitals are "drowning in data but
starving for insight"
• The 75% problem: How CFO time gets consumed by admin tasks
• Leading a hospital turnaround from chronic losses to
sustained positive margins
• Building finance teams that think beyond the numbers
• The future of visionary financial leadership in healthcare
