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Articles in March, 2007 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• HFMA expands e-learning content distributors
• As of Oct. 1, 2007, providers billing for services paid under the Medicare physician fee schedule and anesthesia services are required to submit a nine-digit ZIP code
• Caffeine buzz greater in small doses
• Caring for the uninsured a financial executive's top 10 list: providing health care for the uninsured is an ongoing national concern that affects all Americans, but it also is an immediate concern for a hospital's CFO
  by Sandra J. Wolfskill
• e-health is the way via SOA
  by J. Peter Melrose
• William J. Lammers, CPA
• Focus on covering the uninsured, reducing health costs, say healthcare leaders
• Overheard
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• The case for a new American healthcare system: There is no shortage of policy papers, commissions, committees, and conferences on the problems that plague the healthcare system in America today
  by Andy Stern
• Hospital financial results on the elevator—with a breakfast burrito: we recently had one of those scrolling news monitors installed in the elevator where I work
  by Kevin T. Ponton
• Uncompensated hospital care: a look at the trends
• States taking the reins on healthcare reform …
• Comparison shopping limited in self-pay markets: study
• Breaking down barriers to electronic claims settlement
  by Lynn Carroll
• ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference: meeting your challenges, refreshing your spirit
• Applications now accepted for Helen M. Yerger award
• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has clarified that it pays nonphysician practitioners directly for services rendered in the hospital
• Cost, cost, go away—is capitation here to stay?
• Patient financial management as a community benefit: Hospitals can better articulate the true extent of the community benefit they provide by sharing the ways their medical assistance outreach programs benefit the community
  by Corey Shank
• Marketing accountability: beyond ROI: comprehensive measurement and reporting can lead to a broader understanding of marketing's relationship to success
  by Arthur C. Sturm, Jr.
• Rochelle L. Janoff
• Citizenship documentation requirement causing many to lose coverage: study
• Debating health care at long last: In his 2007 State of the Union address in January, President Bush could not very well remain mum on the topic of health care-not with nearly 50 million Americans having no health insurance, and almost 10 million of them
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Charity care and patient assistance fund administrative policy
  by David Cavell
• Kitty Crochet
• … But Oregon's healthcare initiative holds lessons for other states
• With SCHIP set to expire, partisan battle may be looming
• Recent developments in Medicare Part D 7 things providers should know
  by Paul L. Grimaldi
• Hiring: Get it right the first time: have you ever made a hiring mistake? How long did it take to discover the error once you made it? And how long did it take to correct the error?
  by Carson F. Dye
• Joseph Pace, CPC
• CMS has published a proposed rule
• Do the thing you think you cannot do
  by Joseph J. Fifer
• Spinning straw into gold smarter bad debt management: Meridian Health overpaid one collection agency $97,000 in fees, and that was just one reason to improve its bad debt management
  by Marilyn A. Koczan
• Those devilish details: The old saying "the devil is in the details" applies well to the federal budget mess. While many agree on the goal to balance the federal budget, the details of how to get there spark lively debate
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Pamela Dapuzzo
• Bush administration budget proposal unkind to providers
• Earn founder's points by reviewing hfm articles
• Lessons learned at Parkland: How one hospital reworked its front end: what happens when patients who aren't residents of a county improperly use that county's public hospital resources? That situation faced Parkland Memorial Hospital last summer
  by Bruce Nelson
• Dispelling the Myths: The True Cost of Healthcare-Associated Infections
  by Christopher S. Hollenbeak
• John Rock, MD
• A new proposed rule would change Medicare's policies for graduate medical education payments to teaching hospitals when residents are being trained in nonhospital settings
• Thinking inside the box: I demonstrated some inside-the-box thinking the other day in a discussion about payment-system reform
  by Robert Fromberg
• The revitalization of a business office: How one system increased its self-pay collections: three years ago, the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati learned a valuable lesson: collections mean more than simply reminding patients of balances due
  by Doug Gardner
• By the numbers: Using data for optimal service line management
• Shana K. Wolfe, CMA, CHC
• Tax deduction for health insurance would curb spending, says Bush
• HFMA's CEO comments on medical debt on "NBC Nightly News"
• Patient access: A new face for the revenue cycle: patients' first impressions of hospitals are likely to improve dramatically as a result of recent breakthroughs in managing the revenue cycle's patient access processes
  by Michael S. Friedberg
• Is your capital investment strategy ready for consumerism?