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Articles in Nov, 2005 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Are you using an EHR—really? Electronic health records can support patient care cost-effectively—but only if they're used as intended
  by Margret Amatayakul
• Modifier and condition codes for disaster-related claims announced
• Steven Lee Boles, CHFP
• Marc Proto, FHFMA: it's worth it to get involved in HFMA
• What's the difference? Does your organization have strategies or goals? Or both?
  by Robert Fromberg
• Financing the Future II, report 3: essentials of integrated strategic financial planning and capital allocation: executive summary
• John Sella
• Dolls and dollars: new insight for revenue: how we buy dolls may give some insight into how we can generate new revenue for health care
  by Arthur C. Sturm, Jr.
• On the money: making forecasts what they should be: when was the last time you asked, or even thought about, how closely you hit the mark in your previous year's forecast of this year's performance?
  by Heinz J. Dommert
• Hospitals affected by Katrina should contact rating agencies
• Location regulations could threaten many RHCs
• Asher Kramer, FHFMA
• Internal Control communications Auditing Standard proposed
• Unlocking hospital gridlock: What happens when patients need to be admitted, but all the hospital's beds are full? Gridlock
  by Jonathan J. Clark
• Biomedical research funding trends
• Cooperative effort produces special "E" and "V" coding guidance for hurricane victims
• JCAHO issues emergency planning guide
• Kelly Martin-Sternat
• Bookmark these links!
• Two Americas: many health systems: it took Hurricane Katrina to bring home to many Americans the vast gulf between the haves and the have-nots in this country
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Calendar
• GE Healthcare to acquire IDX in $1.2 billion deal
• HIPAA guidance expanded for hurricane recovery
• Moving to the next level: HFMA's Board of Directors recently tackled strategic planning and disaster planning
  by Richard Rodriguez
• Karen Singleton
• HFMA issues financial management checklist for disaster recovery
• Managing trade-offs makes budgeting processes pay off
  by Dean Sorensen
• Region 9 conference relocates due to Katrina
• Web site helps caregivers access medication histories for hurricane evacuees
• HFMA should applaud consumer-directed care
  by Arthur Cusack
• The perlexity of managing Medicaid drug costs: States face an ongoing quandary in finding the best way to rein in rising Medicaid prescription drug costs
• The current ambulatory surgical center payment rates and wage index values will remain in effect for FY06, CMS has announced
• Beckly L. Jacobsen
• Quotes of note
• Strategic decision making it's time for healthcare organizations to get serious: "What's the use of running if you are not on the right road?"
  by David W. Young
• CFOs and the business of caring: why do you work in health care? When I ask healthcare CFOs this question, their answers are remarkably consistent. They do if for the patients
  by Richard L. Clarke
• RAND study finds advancing medical technology likely to greatly inflate future Medicare costs
• CMS approves waivers for evacuee care
• SEC extends Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 compliance dates
• Per Schau
• Definition of supply expense paves way for national benchmarking tool
• Linda Aranas
• CMS seeks proposals for its five-year Medicare Health Care Quality Demonstration program
• IRS clarifies relationship between excess benefits and exempt status
• Peter D. Gerondeau
• Laurance J. Laux, FHFMA
• Quarterly data show cost impact on operating revenue
• New report shows troubled times in nation's emergency departments
• Transformation and turnaround at Tenet: the new CFO's view
  by Robert S. Shapard
• The return of gainsharing: gainsharing appears to be enjoying a renaissance
  by Max Reynolds
• Inpatient rehabilitation facilities have seen their annualized caseload growth rate go from 4 percent over 2002 and 2003, to a negative 15.3 percent
• Robert C. Wilde
• Class action status granted in patient lawsuit
• The perils of transparent pricing: the time for speculation is over: transparent pricing is becoming a reality for hospitals
  by Preston Gee
• The flattened yield curve, and opportunities for hospital borrowers
  by Kevin T. Ponton
• HHS has extended the expiration date for the interim final rule on civil money penalties for HIPAA violations
• David Hammond, CHFP
• Elaine Matejka, CPA
• Hurricane Katrina displaces 6,000 physicians
• Exit strategies: planning for contract termination
  by Pamela M. Waymack
• Denials overturn analysis
  by Brian Robertson
• CMS proposes standards for electronic claims attachments
• Kevin J. Lang
• Paula Newton
• Groups at highest risk for major depression
• What's your game plan? Advice from the capital markets: do you want to know the most essential elements of your organization's strategy? Listen to what the rating agencies, bond insurers, and investors are saying
  by Mark E. Grube
• It's all in the planning: Dwight D. Eisenhower said, "The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important."
  by Larry Scanlan