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Articles in March, 2004 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Net health facility revenues increase in 2002
• Michael J. Tengeres - Maryland Chapter - People - Franklin Square Hospital Center - Brief Article
• Joel W. Mercer, CHFP, CPA
• Instructions issued for M+C patients' new review rights
• How are hospitals financing the future? The future of capital spending
• Healthcare reform: consumers lead the way: HFMA's employee health insurance costs jumped more than 20 percent in 2004 from the 2003 level. As HFMA's CEO, I had to make difficult decisions regarding benefits, employee cost sharing, and insurance carriers
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Mark B. Carten FHFMA, CPA - Kentucky Chapter - People - Brief Article
• Margaret Garen
• States spend billions to treat obesity-related illness
• Bush outlines election-year healthcare agenda
• Reaching out in time of need: some HFMA members touch the lives of others every day through their leadership, support, and enthusiasm. Gloria Adams, a member of HFMA for more than 20 years, was such a member
  by David P. Canfield
• Are you a "new-age" CFO? If not, start making the transformation as quickly as you can
  by J. Larry Tyler
• How to structure a compliant hospital-physician ASC: if you want to open a joint-venture ambulatory surgical center with physicians, you should familiarize yourself with the OIG's position regarding the safe harbor for such arrangements
  by Gary W. Herschman
• Tenet to sell 27 hospitals
• Bonnie S. Cassidy - Georgia Chapter - People - Brief Article
• Daron W. Whisman
• Dennis W. Doody - New Jersey Chapter - People - Commonfund Group - Brief Article
• Stephen W. Simpson, Jr., CFA
• Payments increased for CAHs
• … Upper payment limits for rural health centers and federally qualified health centers will increase by 2.9 percent over 2003 rates, according to a one-time notification published by CMS on January 20
• Consumer-driven health care: freeing providers to innovate: consumer-driven health care offers salvation to a healthcare industry that penalizes providers that dare to be innovative
  by Regina E. Herzlinger
• Calendar - Calendar
• Daniel Fehr
• Proposed 2005 LTCH update: 2.9 percent
• The new Medicare Advantage a disadvantage for providers?
  by Patrick K. O'Hare
• Looking for revenue? Try tapping on your keyboard: new revenue for your organization may be just a few keystrokes away
  by Arthur Sturm, C., Jr.
• Brad H. Price
• Richard S. Reid, CPA
• … Nursing homes are not permitted to require that Medicare beneficiaries pay in advance to be admitted for Medicare-covered services, CMS explained in a January 8, 2004, letter to state survey agencies and CMS regional offices
• Divide and compete: a new look at service lines: service lines are back. The concept that first surfaced in health care in the mid-1980s is once again in vogue and on point
  by E. Preston Gee
• Plante & Moran: helping hospitals meet the financial challenges facing the industry
• Jeff Eppinette, CPA, MBA
• Survey identifies top IHNs, indicates stabilized growth
• CMS publishes final rule for National Provider Identifier
• First-dollar coverage: an idea whose time has passed: back in the days before most managed care, in the Middle Ages of health care, when hospital payment was still cost-based, the idea of copayments and deductibles seemed almost alien
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Using vectors to minimize the mystery of IT strategy development: one of the most challenging aspects of IT strategy development is represented by statements such as, "our discussion around our goal of improving patient safety resulted in a decision
  by John Glaser
• Richard Cohan - Lone Star Chapter - People - Exempla Healthcare - Brief Article
• Howard Fredrick Hahn, LLN, JD
• Hospital operating revenues to outpace inflation through 2005
• CMS comment-submission process goes on-line
• Strategies to take hospitals off diversion: for many hospitals, diverting patients to other facilities has become routine. But diversion can mean death to certain hospital revenues
  by Robert Geer
• 2002 household income by race
• James Alexander - New Jersey Chapter - People - Brief Article
• Robert F. Drewniak
• Hospital quality reporting deadlines set
• Medicare payment for resident training in nonprovider settings
  by Christopher L. Keough
• Tide rises on pay for performance with voluntary reporting initiative
• Study urges caution on expanding hospital capacity
• CMS addresses payment cap moratorium, evaluation period for therapy services
• Increasing up-front collections: millions of dollars in revenue can be gained by retooling some front-office operations
  by Adrienne S. Kapel
• Ideas that work
• Regan D. Calhoun
• LuAnn Russo
• Operating costs for orthopedists increasing
• States look to improve patient safety in 2004: patient safety continues to be an important concern for state lawmakers
• Back to basics: a self-help approach to achieving financial success