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Articles in May, 2005 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Proposed rule would loosen Medicare hospital conditions of participation
• Correction
• Ardent Health Services
• A strategy for defensible, sustainable prices
• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs exceed estimates
• Financing the Future II, Report 1: principles of best practice financial management: executive summary
• IRS finds growing abuses in the tax-exempt sector
• Private payers fall behind in mental health spending
• Mid-Atlantic States, Inc
• Calendar
• Document management: one paving stone in the path to HER
  by Carlton M. Cottrell
• Hospital price disclosure bill introduced
• Minnesota Masonic Homes
• Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP
• Healthcare cost crisis and quality gap our national dilemma: advances in technology, prescription drugs, and diagnostic testing can cure what ails us, but the price is steep. Can we have it all?
  by Helen Darling
• Michael King: HFMA connections bring real solutions
  by Michael R. King
• More charity care lawsuits dismissed
• Financing the Future II launched
• Quotes of note
• Stony Brook University Hospital
• Capital as percentage of total costs declines while total capital costs increase
• Technology strategy and the balance sheet 3 points to consider: what are your strategic objectives for your technologies? How are you managing them? And how are you funding them? You should have a ready answer for all these questions
  by David J. Waldron
• China's healthcare dilemma: with China on its way to becoming a global business power, its healthcare managers need to ground their entrepreneurial spirit in business basics
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Not-for-profit health systems adopting corporate practices
• Web site allows consumers to compare hospital quality
• Brailer discusses ROI of health IT
• Foley & Lardner, LLP
• Profiting through personality? It's true! Decatur Memorial Hospital is transforming its organizational culture to drive high performance and quality
  by Gary G. Peacock
• NUBC approves UB-04
• 10 proven strategies for reducing equipment costs: cutting costs is a way of life in health care. Given the pressure to squeeze out savings wherever possible, senior financial executives would do well to put into practice a number of tried and true strate
  by Richard J. Henley
• Part B premiums to increase 12 percent
• CIT Group, Inc
• Diagnostic Division-HealthSouth
• Real estate strategies for 2005: own or lease? With a partner or solo? Manage it yourself or hire someone to do it? These are some of the factors to consider for healthcare facility building projects
  by Donald R. Dunbar
• Managing the Healthcare Professional
  by Nancy Borkowski
• Serving HFMA: a wonderful journey: serving as HFMA chairman this past year has been the most rewarding experience of my life, both personally and professionally
  by Joyce Zimowski
• … In its April 2005 update to Medicare's hospital outpatient PPS , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has restated its Jan. 6 summary of eliminated requirements for payment for observation services and added one that was omitted
• Stevens & Lee
• Illinois Hospital Association
• A real-time, reconciled view of capital spending
  by Scott McCorkle
• Contracted payers: the latest challengers to hospital billed charges
  by Frank Fedor
• The ownership society versus the village: themes for health care in 2008: President Bush will not be a candidate for reelection in the 2008 presidential election, but he has already set the Republican domestic agenda for that campaign. And Hillary Clinton
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• … The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recalled transmittal 3460, which provided instructions on how to submit incident-to claims on electronic claim forms
• CRG Solutions, Inc
• Postlethwaite & Netterville
• A key strategy to revenue growth: the right marketing infrastructure: not all successful revenue strategies are focused externally. Sometimes the strongest strategies are built from within
  by Arthur C. Sturm, Jr.
• Regulating pharmacy benefit managers with transparacy: the potential for unscrupulous business practices in the multibillion-dollar prescription drug industry has attracted state lawmakers' attention
  by Melicia Seay
• Ronald J. Kintz: on the importance of lifelong learning
  by Ronald J. Kintz
• AHRQ study shows need for thorough testing of CPOE
  by Margaret S. Veach
• Medicare demo would use auditors to assess payment accuracy
• CHAN Healthcare Auditors
• Greene Health Partners
• Mergers: a critical test of leadership: challenge yourself to excel at leadership during uncertain times
  by Larry Scanlan
• Pay for performance: will your hospital be ready?
  by Patrick K. O'Hare
• Study shows limited use of electronic medical records
• … The services of rural health clinic and federally qualified health center physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners caring for patients in skilled nursing homes or swing beds, may be billed by the RHC or FQHC rather than included i
• Washington Adventist HealthCare
• CampbellWilson
• EHR? Assess readiness first: there's no denying interest in electronic health records is increasing
  by Margret Amatayakul
• McClellan seeks to curb physician spending growth
• Catch the eye of the capital markets: to continue to attract investors, you need more than just bond ratings; you need a broad capital strategy
  by Donald A. Carlson, Jr.