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Articles in March, 2008 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• S&P announces new actions to strengthen credit ratings process
• State of emergency
• An opportunity to make a difference: my theme as HFMA Chairman—Make a Difference—focuses on choosing to invest our life, time, and talents to make a lasting impact on others: our families, profession, workplace, and community
  by Mary Beth Briscoe
• Disaster planning checklist for CFOs of healthcare organizations
• CFOs and quality managers bridging the disconnect: your hospital may have internal barriers that are preventing it from achieving desired patient care outcomes
  by Alan H. Rosentein
• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is updating the 60-day national episode rates and per visit amounts under the home health prospective payment system for CY08
• A tasty tribute: hospital anniversary cake featured on food network
• Randy H. Hamil, FHFMA
• Kenneth J. Klein
• A ride to remember
• Diagnosis: missed opportunities for payment
  by Masoud Khorsand
• Through a proposed rule , CMS would clarify, expand, and add to the existing enrollment requirements that durable medical equipment and prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies suppliers must meet to establish and maintain billing privileges in the Medicare
• Calendar
• Stable credit outlook for not-for-profit healthcare sector: Moody's
• HHS proposes $737 billion budget for FY09
• Reader: Daschle's comments in November article objectionable
  by James J. Birchler
• Gainsharing in health care meeting the quality-of-care challenge: in health care, gainsharing carries unique challenges, but the benefits are worth the effort
  by Sachin H. Jain
• Doesn't take long to hit $2 million these days
• Aetna to pay physicians for online consultations
• Cynthia Denton
• Michael A. Peer, CPA
• A new proposed rule would add section 1915 to the Social Security Act, allowing states to provide self-directed personal assistance services through a state plan option
• Coalition provides education, technical support on completing the new Form 990
• Tracy B. Hursh, CPA, CIA
• Section 413 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 required CMS to pay a 5 percent bonus payment to physicians in a designated physician scarcity area
• Profit centers in clinical care departments an idea whose time has gone: a case can be made for converting a hospital's clinical care departments from profit centers into standard expense centers
  by David W. Young
• Wendi Elder
• Washington to not pay for 'never events'
• Policing your commercial payments staying in the black
  by Marc G. Mertz
• By means of an interim final rule with comment period , CMS is implementing the continuation of the revisit user fee program for Medicare survey and certification activities
• Unscrambling eggs versus improving shock absorbers: how did we get into this mess in barely six months?
  by Kevin T. Ponton
• On June 24, 2005, CMS implemented instructions to the common working file for editing Indian Health Service and tribal facility claims for social admissions
• What's new on our Web site
• Budgeting—or refusing to budge? How budget workshops can reduce the pain: budgeting doesn't have to be everyone's bete noire. St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe, La., found a way to take the fear out of the process
  by Lisa S. Bradley
• Schedule H: what hospitals should do to prepare: Schedule H of the new Form 990 requires detailed reporting of the community benefit hospitals provide, beginning with tax year 2009. Is your organization ready?
  by Jeni Williams
• As enrollment climbs, Medicare advantage plans are being scrutinized
• CMS has no authority to limit state expansion of Medicaid: Dems
• Christine K. Wagner
• Survey reveals top reasons healthcare workers leave
• By means of a proposed rule , CMS would update the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals
• The path to community benefit
  by Robert Fromberg
• Lessons learned from extraordinary leaders: leadership and management are distinct, but the nuances are often hard to define
  by Pamela M. Waymack
• Don't stop believing
• Earn Founder's Points by reviewing hfm articles
• Trends in emergency department capacities and costs
• CMS is implementing provider education activities to notify independent laboratories eligible to bill the carrier for these services that they may do so through June 30, 2008, regardless of the beneficiary's hospitalization status, in accordance with the
• Strengthening weak links in patient accounts management
• Community benefit: how much is enough? Many tax-exempt hospitals could do a better job accounting for the community benefit they deliver, and thereby show that they are truly worthy of tax exemption
  by Howard A. Levenson
• Efforts to reduce number of uninsured now compromised: reports
• Jamalia L. Brashears
• Derick Perkins
• Profile shmofile
• Applications now accepted for Helen M. Yerger award
• The essence of community benefit: "I wish Senator Grassley was sitting here with us for that last discussion."
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Yes, that says "not likely"
• Building the business case for patient-centered care: patient-centered care has the potential to reduce adverse events, malpractice claims, and operating costs while improving market share
  by Patrick A. Charmel
• Nicole Sheldon, CHFP
• Medicare Part D projected costs continue to drop: CMS
• The lame duck budget: why should you care? Why should you care about a lame duck president's last budget—one up for review by a Democrat-controlled Congress that can't wait for the moving vans to pull up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.?
  by Jim Alexander
• New report on prescription drugs shows strong role for states
• Healthcare IT: health plans understand the need: we are frequently reminded of both the importance of IT in health care and the extent to which the healthcare industry trails other information-intensive industries in its use of IT
  by Jim Adams