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Articles in Jan, 2004 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Scully steps down from CMS
• Carolinas Healthcare System
• The FASB has issued a proposed interpretation to clarify some of the provisions of Interpretation No. 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, and to exempt certain entities from its requirements
• An Appalachian adventure
• Medicare gets much-needed shot in the arm: the newly passed Medicare bill has set the nation on the right track for effectively meeting the healthcare needs of future generations
  by Newt Gingrich
• HFMA announces 2004-05 board nominees
• Hospital selling prices leap in October
• What's a new patient worth to you?
  by Arthur C. Sturm, Jr.
• CMS has taken its home health quality initiative nationwide
• Healthcare futurist Coile dies
• CMS issues instructions for 2004 lab fee schedule
• A New Year's resolution: stop the clock: this year, my New Year's resolution is simple and easy to implement. There's just too much to do each other, so I'm going to stop the clock
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Physician specialty practices strategic survival for rural hospitals: "access to health care" in rural areas usually means access to primary care. But improving access to specialty care can help rural hospitals stay alive
  by Ronald Deprez
• Managing HIPAA Compliance
  by Phillip Belcher
• Michael J. Christensen recently retired as a member of Ropes & Gray's Health Care Croup, San Francisco
• Merrill Lynch Capital
• Congress passes Medicare bill
• Winners and losers under the new and improved Medicare: they did it! We have a "new and improved" Medicare. Let's look at some of the players and how the new Medicare will benefit—or not benefit—them
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• How are hospitals financing the future? Capital spending in health care today
• Some gift-giving guidance
  by Julie E. Kass
• CMS has transitioned from a paper-based to a web-based manual system
• GAO: number of physicians increased by 26 percent
• Senate approves Mental Health Parity extension
• E/M code analysis can promote optimum ED payment
• Five simple tools for managing labor costs: you don't need a crystal ball to predict your future staffing needs. All you need are a few simple financial tools
  by Paul B. Stevenson
• No more chances for supply-chain savings? Look again! Many hospitals assume they have exhausted opportunities to reduce supply-chain costs. But a well-coordinated, interdisciplinary effort may still yield substantial savings
  by Robert N. Davis
• Calendar
• Houston Baptist University
• Council revises chapter charter requirement, award programs
• 10 New Year's tips for finance leaders: one New Year prediction can be made with confidence: from accessing capital to improving the revenue cycle, healthcare CFOs and other senior financial executives will face the challenge of continual change
  by Christina Roman
• Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works
  by Lyndon T. Castro
• CMS estimates that $11.6 billion in Medicare payments—or 5.8 percent of payments—were made in error in FY03, about the same as last year's rate
• Enrollment to nursing schools increasing
• States ponder 2004 outlook
• The U.S. healthcare system can be fixed
  by Benjamin Podgor
• Catholic Healthcare Audit Network
• Psych PPS rule finally surfaces
• Changing views about "usual charges"
  by Frank P. Fedor
• The value of employee retention: throughout my years in healthcare administration, I used to think, "life will be good if we can just re-engineer to cut expenses."
  by Quint Studer
• CMS provides EMTALA guidance to surveyors and regional offices
• USP: percentage of harmful medical errors declined in 2002
• HFMA's legacy: one thing that always impress me about HFMA is its rich history and the commitment shown by its early members
  by David P. Canfield
• Credit balances: spotlighting a little-known area of risk and opportunity
• IRS publishes brochure to explain tax-exempt status
• Healthcare M&A activity rises in third quarter 2003
• Disease management programs for chronically ill address cost
• The mystery of IT strategy: strategy failures present one of the greatest risks to a significant information technology investment
  by John P. Glaser