Healthcare Financial Management

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Articles in Dec, 2003 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• … HHS has announced the Medicare premium, deductible, and coinsurance amounts to be paid by Medicare beneficiaries in 2004
• Calendar - Calendar
• Wayne State University School of Medicine - People
• Medicare beneficiaries don't get full range of preventive services
• Strong leadership can help avoid nightmares: "hospital overstated revenue: hospital group discovered, corrected $30.7 million error"
  by Bruce A. Hallowell
• 2003 copayment calculations led to inaccurate payments
• Healthcare employment costs rise 1 percent; benefit costs grow at twice the rate of wages
• CSI Financial Services - People
• Cruising along with HFMA
  by David P. Canfield
• The collector inspector self-pay trends necessitate more effective RFPs
  by Bobette Gustafson
• Accounting for revenue recognition a top priority for FASB
• Banking industry offers help on claims payment process
• First Consulting Group - People
• … Corrections to the medicare hospital wage index for FY04 were published in the October 6 Federal Register - Correction Notice
• Phoenix Rising Healthcare Strategies, LLC - People
• New office of HIPAA Standards posts complaint form
• A brave new world of health care: the ghosts of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 continue to haunt the healthcare provider community
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Pay for performance: applying lessons learned from medical groups
• Final rule cuts medicare physician fees by 4.5 percent for 2004
• Quotes of note
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Plaza Medical Center - People
• Insured Americans drive surge in hospital ED visits
• What's it worth? Cost shifting, a practice that can often result in significant financial burden on self-pay patients, is leading to greater scrutiny of hospital charging practices
  by Ray B. Lefton
• … The standard mileage rate for businesses to use in deducting automobile costs will increase to 37.5 cents in 2004, up from 36 cents in 2003, according to the IRS
• Report urges improvements in nurses' working environments
• QUE Financial - People - Jere Burch - Brief Article
• Merrill Lynch Capital Healthcare Finance - People
• Outpatient PPS payments to increase 4.5 percent
• Chapter surveys to arrive in January
• Financially savvy system implementation: tips you need to know
  by Vincent Ciotti
• The enVision Group - People
• Hospitals face growing struggle to access capital
• Payment trends achieving stability amid uncertainty: preparing for future payment policies and practices will require a balancing act involving a broad range of revenue-enhancing strategies
  by William O. Cleverley
• Healthcare fraud program boasts record returns to government
• Physician groups face rising operating costs
• United Audit Services, Inc - People
• Region V hosts Dixie Institute
• GAO denounces direct payment for laboratory services
• Taking steps toward long-term viability
  by Charles R. Brobst
• Constant coverage of charging and collection concerns: on October 30, the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page article titled "Medical Seizures: Hospital Try Extreme Measures to Collect their Overdue Debts." Unfortunately, focusing on how hospit
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Community-based care interest results in new advocacy group
• Crisp, Hughes, Evans, LLP - People
• Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center - People
• One-fourth of uninsured work in large firms or are their dependents
• Strategic service-line planning building competitive advantage: senior financial executives play a critical role in developing an organization's service-line plans
  by Elizabeth Greenspan
• E&M coding still 2004 OIG target
• HIPAA copy charges for medical records
  by Rose T. Dunn
• Percentage of diagnosed AIDS cases by sex and race, united states
• Horizon Health Corporation - People
• States seek affordable health insurance solutions
• Recovering real money with a contract management system
  by Kevin Lang
• Dedicating the right resources to denials management: full-time physician attention helped reduce one health system's denied claims and length of stay
  by Mark J. Baumel