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Articles in Oct, 2005 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Nancy Huyten
• Long-term care support program grants released
• When should you consider acquisition? Although the business landscape is littered with healthcare and nonhealthcare acquisition disasters, there are also many successes. Consider three healthcare organizations that took the risk—and flourished
  by Alan M. Zuckerman
• Study: EHRs may benefit small practices financially, but only modest gains in quality seen
• Time for a price check? Market trends are leading some acute care hospitals to examine their managed care payments and adopt a protective strategy: price shifting
  by Bryan F. Smith
• Keith Cantrell
• Legislative activity focuses on nursing home quality and safety
  by Rachel Tanner
• Time for patient payment strategies
  by Elizabeth M. Guyton
• Market basket adjustment provides offset to wage index downward pressure on hospice payments
• Omission of procedure codes has significant impact on Medicare payment
• Martin Glick, CPA
• Sarah Holt
• Clarke makes 100 most powerful list
• Benjamin Seib
• Aetna to post negotiated physician fees
• How do we engage the medical staff in IT? Organizations increasingly are faced with the need to make significant investments in clinical information systems such as computerized provider order entry and electronic health records
  by John Glaser
• Uninsured total up, even as government rolls grow
• Hurricane recovery financial information for providers
• Dereesa Purtell, CPA,
• Safety net responsibilities could spread, says study
• Reducing leader variance: consistency and standardization in operations can help your organization excel
  by Quint Studer
• The "real" world: "some of our CFOs have to mow the lawns."
  by Robert Fromberg
• Cindy K. Bartlett
• William G. Kistner
• John Travis: HFMA nurtures my career interests
• IRS relaxes deadlines for benefit plans and Form 990
• Transaction services: beyond basics to bolt-ons
• … CMS has updated the Medicare Part A skilled nursing facility prospective payment system pricer for the first quarter of FY06, reflecting the updated SNF PPS payment rates, effective for service dates Oct. 1 through Dec. 31
• HFMA's 2005 fall seminar series
• Assessing the feasibility of developing centers of excellence: six initial steps: is a center of excellence in your organization's future? Some important considerations can help you lay the groundwork for making this critical decision
  by Michael C. Boblitz
• Making hospital-physician collaboration work: working smarter, not harder, can help hospitals and physicians work cooperatively
  by Kenneth H. Cohn
• Benchmarking supply expenses the devil's in the definition: why hasn't the healthcare industry been able to fix the disconnect between the supply chain and the revenue cycle? Maybe a generally accepted definition of "supply expense" would be a s
  by David S. Kaczmakre
• Julia Gilbert
• Linda N. Ollis, FACHE
• AHIMA releases guidelines for defining the legal health record
• Improving cash flow with better charge capture and denial management: this project is a collaboration effort by MedAssets and the Healthcare Financial Management Association
• The business of caring when tragedy strikes: we work in an industry that deals with sickness and tragedy every day
  by Richard Rodriguez
• Amy King
• Innovative analytics optimise self-pay receivables
  by Adam Boehler
• Candaae Peterson, CPA
• CBO predicts strong U.S. economic outlook
• Calendar
• "All that we have and all that we give": a CFO's story
  by Dungey Denise Reed
• Quotes of note
• Jeanene Whittaker
• Leonard Well
• CMS to reject non-HIPAA-compliant claims
• NQF endorses standards for ambulatory care
• Draft Form 990 schedules ask new compensation questions
• Possibilities and pitfalls of outsourcing
  by Sarah E. Hazelwood
• Cost-based pricing and the underperforming physician group: perhaps healthcare organizations should spend as much time and effort improving the revenue performance of their employed physician groups as they do on operational and overhead improvements
  by Craig D. Pederson
• Asset management the big picture: the key to getting the most out of your capital equipment assets is to develop a plan that effectively addresses each point along the asset management continuum
  by Deborah C. Deinstadt
• Joseph Lewis
• Innovative analytics optimize self-pay receivables
  by Adam Boehler
• Jon Riggs
• Many medical groups operate at a loss
• Health savings accounts: the good, the bad, and the unknown: consumer-directed health care received a significant boost when Congress passed and the president signed the Medicare Modernization Act in 2004
  by Richard L. Clarke
• CMS proposes new DSH reporting and auditing requirements
• HFMA helps develop new leadership competency tool
• Kraig Vondran
• James M. Gavin, CPA
• CMS proposes limits on prior determination services
• Indications of growing healthcare cost and access problems
• IRS to review 501 bond compliance
• Consumer-directed health plans a new force in health insurance? Consumer-directed health plans-high-deductible health insurance plans combined with tax-advantaged savings accounts that can be used to cover unreimbursed healthcare expenditures—have ge
  by Gail R. Wilensky
• … CMS has published the October update to the 2005 Medicare physician fee schedule database