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Healthcare Financial Management, Annual, 2006

Whether you're looking for ways to maintain regulatory compliance or tips for achieving top operational performance goals, you'll find solutions in four information-packed newsletters published by HFMA. Subscribing to these newsletters will bring you strategies for improving the revenue cycle, driving results, generating new revenue, controlling costs, and ensuring supply chain success.

Supply Chain Solutions

Cost management has never been more important, and in today's economy, there's room for improvement in hospital supply chains. HFMA's newest newsletter, Supply Chain Solutions. offers information that will help you take your hospital supply chain to the next level. Recent articles in Supply Chain Solutions have covered fixing the hospital supply chain, engaging physicians in supply expense management, an integrated procurement system, integrating the supply chain and the revenue cycle, measuring supply chain performance, and linking the item master and the chargemaster. This newsletter, published six times a year, can help you keep in the loop for supply chain success.

Special Feature

As a special bonus feature for readers of this 2006 Resource Guide, we are including in the following pages the entire inaugural issue of Supply Chain Solutions. Why? We could think of no better way to show you the high-quality content that this dynamic new resource has to offer. Enjoy!

Executive Insights

Healthcare finance executives need strategies that will help their organizations achieve their goals. The impact of price increase limits in managed care contracts, billing and collections for the uninsured, increasing hospital costs, Sarbanes-Oxley Act provisions related to not-for-profit organizations, organizational culture, and the impact of facility replacement on market and financial performance are some of the topics covered in Executive Insights. Get the inside line on leadership--and management strategies that drive results from this monthly newsletter.

Managing the Margin

Good management can help you improve your organization's bottom line and increase volume. Topics covered in Managing the Margin include the top five costly invoice mistakes, leadership development, voice communication technology, equipment lifecycle management strategy, evaluating your medical transcription service, joint ventures, and improved bank services. This monthly HFMA newsletter delivers strategies for generating new revenue and controlling costs.

Revenue Cycle Strategist

From scheduling and registration to billing and collections, the revenue cycle offers both challenges and opportunities. Using custom reporting to manage denials, pay for performance, reengineering patient business services, health savings accounts, intuitive speech technology-based collection management, and hiring top-quality revenue cycle staff are just a few of the topics covered recently in Revenue Cycle Strategist. You'll find articles and tools to help your hospital achieve successful results in this monthly newsletter.

For information on subscribing to Supply Chain Solutions, Executive Insights, Managing the Margin, and Revenue Cycle Strategist, visit www.hfma.org/ publications/newsletters/subscribenews.cfm, or call toll-free (800) 252-HFMA (4362), ext. 2.