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Articles in Jan, 2008 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Total Medicare hospice expenditure by provider type
• Marlena J. Ward
• Universal health care comes closer to reality in California
• More employees in plans requiring deductible: report
• Government should use its buying power to promote health IT: Leavitt
• Calendar
• The RAC program are you ready? National implementation of the recovery audit contractors program could save Medicare as much as $10 billion over five years. Discover the impact this program will have on providers—and how to prepare for an RAC review
  by Francine Machisko
• Paul M. Horton
• For services furnished on or after Jan. 1, 2008, hospitals are required to report HCPCS modifier FC on the procedure code for all cases
• Would you like that glazed or with sprinkles?
• Physician integration, cost of capital among key industry challenges: HFMA report
• 5 nuances of Medicare billing: Medicare billing includes intricacies that all healthcare financial leaders should understand. Do you know how to minimize their impact on your organization?
  by Billy K. Richburg
• Representative Nancy Johnson: moving to a health and wellness system
• Steven Miller
• Employer mandates hurt low-income employees: study
• States experiencing tighter fiscal conditions, says report
• Nursing and finance making the connection: the results of the nursing-finance partnership at Yavapai Regional Medical Center make a compelling case for teamwork
  by Terry Brennan
• HMO snapshot
• Overheard
  by William F. Jessee
• What's new on our web site
• Blix M. Rice
• The three circles of career advancement: choices and sacrifices go hand in hand
  by MarieAnn North
• VBP: considering the worst case scenario: the CMS value-based purchasing plan has been given to Congress, so is it time to start worrying about Medicare's approach to taking "payment by data" to the next level?
  by Jim Alexander
• HMO zoom shot
• CMS has provided information on the update to the changes to payment to end-stage renal disease facilities
• CMS has issued a final rule with comment period finalizing the Medicare program provisions relating to contract determinations involving Medicare Advantage organizations and Medicare Part D prescription drug plan sponsors
• So much for that New Year's resolution
• Executive compensation tally sheets
  by David Cohn
• Carol Reineck, PhD, RN, CNAA-BC, FAAN
• For the sake of others: New Year's resolutions of healthcare finance executives
• Regulating long-term care hospitals in search of a roadmap to clarity
  by Joel M. Hamme
• Charles D. Hall, CPA
• CMS publishes national list of poor-performing nursing homes
• Simulation game provides financial management training: all healthcare leaders should grasp the essentials of financial management, but gaining that knowledge may look to some like an unappealing chore. Here's how one health system made it interactive, en
  by Neville Uhles
• Stephanie Wood
• CMS has instructed contractors to deny claims if the appropriate Food and Drug Administration certification status is not listed on the Mammography Quality Standard Act file instead of returning the claim to the provider or returning the claim as unproc
• Black belts to the fourth degree
• Could your initials spell your intellectual fate?
• Chris Haunschild, CPA
• Racial disparities in health care quality should mean equality: reducing racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare quality is essential for health systems to survive a more diverse America
  by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
• The year ahead: making New Year's resolutions reminds me of a habit my younger son had when he was six years old
  by Robert Fromberg
• Andrea Fann
• Bush vetoes revised SCHIP reauthorization bill
• The red and the blue: how the candidates would reform U.S. health care: universal health care versus private market. Just another way of saying Democrat versus Republican?
  by Margaret Veach
• Glenn Hackbarth, JD: care coordination for Medicare beneficiaries
• State legislatures face unsettled conditions in 2008: NCSL
• Maryland passes law offsetting costs of small-business health coverage
• Wheel could help roll back pounds
• Strategic pricing: hitting the mark
• HFMA announces nominees for board leadership
• Jessie Menendez
• Present on admission: impact on hospitals for Medicare and other payers
• Major trends affecting hospital payment: healthcare financial leaders can implement some cost-saving and cost-shifting initiatives to enhance their organizations' margins in 2008
  by Martin J. D'Cruz
• Kill bill?
• Employer mandates for small businesses may not improve benefits or reduce premiums: RAND study
• Reaching out to children in crisis: we live and work in a country where we enjoy so many freedoms and are afforded endless opportunities
  by Mary Beth Briscoe
• CMS also issued an interim final rule with comment period revising current Medicaid regulations to incorporate changes made by section 6052 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
• Clarke addresses need for patient-friendly payment system on Forbes.com
• Patricia L. Nikkhoo
• We Carry Each Other: Getting Through Life's Toughest Times
  by Paul Shillam
• New Year's resolutions: Happy New Year. It's incredible to me that it's 2008 already—I still haven't adjusted to the idea of living in the 21st century
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Best practices in healthcare investing
  by Dennis Doody
• Creating a sustainable physician strategy: hospital-physician relations are changing. Will your hospital keep pace? Get prepared with these six must-do actions
  by Jay Warden