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Articles in April, 2003 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• CMS issues payment and billing changes for OPT - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• Health services PPI rose modestly in January - Industry Watch - Brief Article
• Containing revenue-cycle costs - Business - a plan for healthcare providers to cut costs
  by Robert Geer
• Coaching managers - Leadership and Management - in a hospital-based medical practice
  by Bernard Liebowitz
• HealthSouth-Treasure Valley Hospital - People - hires Michael Long as assistant administrator - Brief Article
• HHS expands quality initiative to home health field - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• AHA report refutes cost impact of consolidation - Industry Watch - Brief Article
• Congress urged to avoid DSH payment reductions - HFMA News - healthcare associations urge Congress to enact Medicaid disproportionate share hospital legislation - Brief Article
• Preparing for asset retirement: are you recognizing asset retirement obligations when they are incurred? SFAS No. 143 suggests this practice to help to improve comparability between organizations' financial statements - Feature Story
  by Randall W. Luecke
• Plante & Moran, LLP - People - names Bernard Ostrowski as a partner - Brief Article
• MSA market factors determine hospitals' appropriate level of charges - Data Trends - medical service areas
• Producer Price Index - PPI - In Brief - Brief Article
• BCBSA reports how premium dollars are spent - Industry Watch - Brief Article
• Renegotiate outsourced transcription contracts with both Privacy and Security Standards in mind
  by Cheryl Servais
• Concurrent sessions: an educational banquet! - HFMA ANI 2003 Baltimore - a discussion of the educational sessions to be held by the HFMA's Annual National Institute
• United Government Services, LLC - People - RSM McGladrey hires Christopher M. Urwin - Brief Article
• Long-awaited HIPAA rules arrive - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• Health services field adds jobs in January - Industry Watch - Brief Article
• HFMA member of NUBC - HFMA News - Brief Article
• Best practices for preempting payment denials: high-quality data are meaningless unless they are carefully analyzed and the results reported to the hospital's key decision-makers - Feature Story
  by Dennis J. Scotti
• Eastern Health Systems - People - Warren Averett Kimbrough & Marina L.L.C. hires Brian S. Romine - Brief Article
• MASH - People - promotes Cheryl. E. Kaufmann to director of customer relations - Brief Article
• CMS to help facilitate additional documentation requests - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• Medicare physician payment conversion factors with initial and final conversion factors for 2003, 1999-2003 - Brief Article
• Are you meeting customers' emotional needs? - Patient Financial Services
  by Bobette M. Gustafson
• Why does an IT investment fail to deliver returns? - Digital Perspectives
  by John Glaser
• North Broward Hospital District - People - hires Kevin M. Sheehan - Brief Article
• House approves key healthcare bills affecting medical liability - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• Reports document hospital spending growth - Industry Watch
• HFMA seeks protection of SCHIP funding - HFMA News - the State Children's Health Insurance Program - Brief Article
• What price is right? Hospitals struggling to offset financial losses resulting from caring for Medicare and managed care patients need a systematic pricing strategy - Feature Story
  by William O. Cleverley
• University of Alabama Hospital - People - Cleveland Clinic Foundation appoints Sydney K. Rountree as executive director of finance - Brief Article
• HCA-The Healthcare Group - People - promotes Beverly Wallace to president - Brief Article
• HHS inspector general Janet Rehnquist - In Brief - Brief Article
• Kaiser Permanente partners to automate medical records - Industry Watch - Brief Article
• John J. Gantner - Executive Insights - the treasurer of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital discusses the work of a CFO at a hospital - Column
• See healthcare finance at a new level - HFMA ANI 2003 Baltimore - a discussion of the highlights of the HFMA's Annual National Institute's premier educational event for healthcare financial professionals
• The Foster Group, Inc - People - hires Fred Hatcher as senior healthcare sales representative - Brief Article
• CMS reports home health claims processing problem - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• Study finds most HMO preservice appeals disregard medical necessity - Industry Watch - Brief Article
• Renegotiating the social contract - Eye on Washington - President Bush is working to reinvent Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Above see level - HFMA ANI 2003 Baltimore
• Glacier Financial Services - People - promotes Christopher A. Ohde to vice president of client services - Brief Article
• The new hfm - From the President
  by Richard L. Clarke
• 2003 physician fee schedule gives 1.6 percent increase - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• States tackle the health insurance crisis - State Policy Watch - Brief Article
• Patient safety is top IT priority for 2003 - Industry Watch - Brief Article
• Drug card setback highlights need for cost relief - Medicare/Medicaid - the move toward a prescription drug benefit is proceeding slowly
  by Richard L. Gundling
• Fundamentals of Health Care Financial Management: A Practical Guide to Fiscal Issues and Activities, Second Edition. . - Bookshelf - book review
  by Stacey Travers Roux
• Anne Arundel Medical Center - People - hires Carolyn Rader as compliance auditor - Brief Article
• CMS issues proposed outlier rule - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• Capturing creative thoughts - From the Chairman
  by Phyllis A. Cowling
• M&A activity soars in fourth quarter 2002 - Industry Watch - healthcare merger and acquisition activity increases - Brief Article
• Compliance what's around the corner? Clinical trials, CDM accuracy, experimental drugs, and patient privacy are a few of the things that keep compliance officers on their toes - Cover Story
  by J. Stuart Showalter
• St. Vincent's Hospital & Healthcare - People - Ascension Health appoints Katherine A. Arbuckle as vice president of finance - Brief Article
• Healthcare Consulting Practice - People - Chapin Revenue Cycle Management L.L.C. appoints Richard W. LaForge as vice president - Brief Article