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Articles in April, 2004 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Quotes of note
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Kendall E. Johnson, FHFMA
• Robert L. Howey, III .
• Capacity improvements reduce ED diversions
• MedPAC's 2005 recommendations are mixed bag for providers
• Could the election year have anything to do with that?
  by James Alexander
• Reducing your credentialing liability: all too often, healthcare organizations and their medical staff are targets of medical malpractice lawsuits
  by Michael Nowicki
• Dividing a trillion-dollar pie; new payment trends, with more than $1 trillion at stake, have providers and payers jockeying to allocate risk to their own advantage
  by Kevin Quinn
• On March 12, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, was confirmed by the Senate as new CMS administrator
• HMO profits show 73 percent increase in second quarter 2003
• Lee Johnson, FHFMA
• Sheri Beekman
• Survey finds internal control assurance carries high price
• CMS changes drug billing and payments
• Surveyed hospital execs say they plan to build
• Mark Fuqua
• MMA payment rate resource available
• CMS proposes daily posting of nursing facility FTEs
• Coding secondary outpatient services
• Dawnlynne Kacer
• Michael Mulyk
• CMS limits 14-day payment period to HIPAA-compliant claims
• Hospitals struggle to meet Leapfrog standards
• Managing costs through clinical quality improvement: by employing care-based cost management, providers can reduce costs and improve efficiencies
  by Ken Davis
• Using metrics to achieve optimal ROI: every information technology project in health care seeks to achieve optimal return on investment But exactly how do you measure and achieve this return? It's a common struggle for healthcare providers
  by Randy Thomas
• Are you getting the most from your revenue-cycle management system?
  by Elizabeth Guyton
• Calendar
• Louis Caligiuri
• Robert M. Ragonese
• Anna Bizzle
• Regional Executive Council nominated
• CMS published the first update to the 2004 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule database
• Flourishing through focused leadership: the mark of good leadership is focusing on what followers want, and that is competence, integrity, consistency, courage, and humility
  by James D. Beck
• Growing pains: the difference between strategic and nonstrategic growth
  by Alan M. Zuckerman
• A new image for long-term care: the professional liability crisis affecting nursing homes threatens to make long-term care ownership a bad bet for hospitals and health systems
  by Richard Wager
• Meredith Colagiovanni
• Timothy Hill
• Donna Maynard
• CMS restores rate exceptions for pediatric ESRD facilities
• CFOs expect double-digit increase in capital spending
• Septicemia rate following elective surgery
• Kimberly Boynton
• Stephanie F. Delks
• FDA issues final bar coding rule for drugs and blood
• Transfer policy set for patients who leave against medical advice
• Business planning: reasons, definitions, and elements
  by Michael A. Cardamone
• James E. Russell
• Heather Lynn Weber
• Executive summit speaker flags new compliance issues
• NPI final rule explained. lable
• Business-office challenges of small and rural hospitals
• Off to the presidential races: so it's Kerry against Bush. Yes, the presidential primaries are over, for all practical purposes, and the race for the White House is now in full swing
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Searching for risk; the search for business risk will take you on an enlightening journey throughout your organization
  by Thomas Heim
• Healthcare spending projected to slow
• States seek to reduce costs of long-term care; as baby boomers get closer to retirement and state budgets continue to be overwhelmed by increasing Medicaid spending, state lawmakers face difficult decisions about how to manage healthcare expenditures
• Brian D. Hamilton
• Erich Koch
• Revocation of hospital's tax-exempt status could harm charitable services
• It just keeps getting better
  by David P. Canfield