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Articles in Nov, 2004 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• MedPAC explores hospital pricing practices
• Quotes of note
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Signed, screened, and delivered: a tried-and-true method for helping people discover whether they are at risk for serious illness? A huge revenue driver? Health screenings can be both
  by Arthur C. Sturm
• California patient care labor costs rise under staffing requirements
• CMS issues instructions on changing inpatient admissions to outpatient
• Consumer-driven health plans: implications for providers
  by Bill Phillips
• 7 steps for evaluating primary care practice ownership: burned by physician practice ownership in the past? Chances are your strategy was ill-fated from the start
  by Michael C. Boblitz
• MedPAC finds specialty hospital picture unclear
• Strategic business planning linking strategy with financial reality: linking long-term strategy with near-term financial and operational realities makes for a clearer march toward key objectives
  by Andrew K. Bachrodt
• Odin Berg
• HFMA joins effort to simplify municipal bond filing process
• Patient-friendly billing: are your bills patient-friendly? If not, we're here to help
  by Joyce Zimowski
• Number of uninsured adults grows
• HFMA provides PPS resource
• Clarification
• HHS "Early Offers" program aimed at reducing litigation costs
• The business case for better buildings
  by Leonard L. Berry
• MMA cuts more than expected from oncology services
• NCQA releases its 2004 health care quality report
• Reinventing yourself: every day: CFOs who want lasting success need to reinvent themselves. Are you up to the challenge?
  by Larry Scanlan
• Sergio Melgar
• Election 2004: health care is the loser: it doesn't matter which candidate has come out on top in this year's election—there is one clear loser: the American healthcare system
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Joint resolution blending finance and strategy: CFOs should play an active leadership role in the healthcare organization's strategic planning process
  by Jason H. Sussman
• Uninsured growing, premiums rising faster than earnings
• Future areas of focus
• An unusual capital source for rural hospitals: agriculture: did you ever think of going to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund your capital project?
  by Kevin T. Ponton
• Who owns this problems? The latest Wall Street Journal article on excessive hospital charges misses the point
  by Richard L. Clarke
• … CMS has announced it will conduct large-scale programs under the Voluntary Chronic Care Improvement Program mandated by the MMA
• Are you of good report?
  by Shelley R. Slade
• CMS clarifies application process for redistributed FTE slots
• GAO concludes Scully broke appropriations law
• Study identifies steps to EHR implementation
• Key strategies for sustained performance improvement
• Vicki Z. Lauter
• Training profoundly impacts revenue cycle, says HFMA survey
• S&P expects more healthcare downgrades next year
• How front-line staff can avoid denied claims
• The Economics of Health Reconsidered, Second Edition
  by Michael F. Peters
• … The OIG released separate audit reports on three hospitals that did not comply with Medicare law, regulations, and guidelines for claiming organ acquisition costs and received excess Medicare payment for organ acquisition activities
• New reimbursement models reward clinical excellence: pay-for-performance means that quality and revenue are no longer separate issues for healthcare providers
  by Karen Corrigan
• Increased Medicare premium and deductible rates announced
• Employer-sponsored health premiums average 11.2 percent increase
• Region 9 hosts symposium
• Calendar
• … The use of outpatient professional services for behavioral health disorders has increased more than 25 percent during the three-year period from 2000 through 2002, the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association reported September 14
• DME competitive bidding committee appointed
• Hospital billing practices and the uninsured: an emerging legislative response: bad debt and the costs of charity care pose financial challenges that often place not-for-profit hospitals in a "catch-22" situation
  by Andrew McKinley
• Survey: Americans find health care lacking
• Aiming for more than a base HIT: HHS has declared that we are starting the decade of health information technology . A national health information infrastructure is envisioned, and momentum is growing for electronic health records
  by Margret Amatayakul
• Christopher R. Giuliano, FHFMA
• ICD-10: capturing the complexities of health care
• Out-of-pocket expenses high for privately insured patients with chronic conditions
• Effective demand forecasting in 9 steps: shifts in demand for a hospital's services can occur unexpectedly. Demand forecasting can help you prepare for these shifts and avoid strategic missteps
  by Hugo J. Finarelli, Jr.
• Russell Armistead
• Study: U.S. health professions separate but unequal
• CMS updates issued for outpatient PPS, physician fee schedule