Healthcare Financial Management

View more issues:

Articles in June, 2004 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• National coaching Course descriptions
• Small employers pay more for health insurance dollar
• Stockamp & Associates
• Adequate payment versus fiscal control: an elusive balance
• Financing the future statistics available
• HFMA thanks 2004 ANI sponsors
• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• HFMA's secrets revealed: we've been keeping something from you. Not intentionally. In fact, we work hard to let you know all about our many activities
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Blue Cross "strike force" confronts fraud
• Events
• President Bush launches electronic health record initiative
• HMO profits rise to $6.7 billion in 2003
• Knowing what to measure: by investing in a new clinical information system, one organization was able to improve patient care without adding staff while also increasing efficiency and productivity
  by Tom Ewing
• HIPAA compliance not so great? maybe it's time to coordinate: healthcare laws and regulations these days, particularly HIPAA and its associated technology implications, have become a maze of layers that intrude on everyday operations and require new appro
  by Kenneth W. Fody
• Faith Regional Health Services
• Tuesday course descriptions
• The integrated revenue cycle making the case for change
  by Susan McBride
• Southeastern Gynecologic Oncology, LLC
• Long-awaited "75 percent" rehab rule expands qualifying conditions
• Increasing uninsured burden reflected in HCA reports
• Internal audit consider the implications
  by Grant D. Baumgartner
• Exhibitors List
• Carlsbad Medical Center
• Pre-encounter assessment available
• VHA health foundation poll: hospital community benefits increasing
• Events
• High turnover, resulting from low pay and limited career growth, is the cause of the shortage of long-term healthcare paraprofessionals responsible for providing core to an increasing percentage of chronically ill, disabled, and elderly people
• HFMA comments on Circular 230 regulations
• Chairman's letter
  by Joyce A. Zimowski
• Calendar
• Annual growth rate moderates for healthcare employment cost; inches up for health care
• Monday course description
• Study indicates Medicare PPOs will face challenges
• The Jewish Guild for the Blind
• Beyond the Numbers: my theme, "Beyond the Numbers," has a lot of significance for me. It means going beyond the obvious, looking deeper
  by Joyce Zimowski
• Implementing the MMA: a lot has been written about the adequacy of the drug benefit in the new Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act and the political arm-twisting needed to get the legislation through Congress
  by Gail R. Wilensky
• Exhibitors List
• Carlisle Regional Medical Center
• Quotes of note
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• The Medicare psychiatric PPS is likely to be implemented in early 2005 for about 2,000 psychiatric facilities and units, according to a CMS staff report to the Hospital Open Door Forum on April 13
• Events
• CMS publishes edits to home health consolidated billing
• Clarke receives AHA award
• Breaking up the transcription logjam can improve cash flow: Health Midwest, a family of healthcare services in Kansas City, restructured the transcription services for its 12-hospital system—with dramatic results
  by Dennis Paulik
• Prioritizing growth opportunities
  by Alan M. Zuckerman
• Ashland Regional Health Center
• Wednesday course
• The right start: getting financial information from patients during your initial point of contact with them can be tricky. To improve data collection, one healthcare system revamped its business processes and introduced new technology
  by Pamela R. Wirth
• CMS eliminates statement-of-intent procedures for medicare claims
• First Quarter Not-for-Profit financial results indicate stability
• Joyce Zimowski takes HFMA beyond the numbers: numbers may be in the blood of Joyce A. Zimowski, FHFMA, CPA, but her experience and energy have led her to learn that financial management can be hard to quantify
• 2004 Annual National Institute
• Clinton Memorial Hospital
• National core coaching course
• Study: insurance mergers and acquisitions likely to increase in 2004
• Welcome to Nashville!
• Pension law eases funding burden, protects resident matching programs
• HFMA solution can improve competency and compliance
• Events
• North Carolina Hospital Association
• Plante & Moran: helping hospitals face the challenges of OPPS revenue management and compliance
• Hospitals can change patient status code without penalty
• Idea Exchange exhibit
• Testing the GPO waters: as competition for your business continues to increase, it may be tempting to abandon your group purchasing organization for a competitor. However, it's important to consider whether the savings presented can actually be realized
  by Martha A. Dula
• DOL rule enhances "white collar" exemption regulations
• Federal interest rate hike expected this summer
• Making the commitment to compliance: do you think the storm of federal compliance investigations is dying down? Think again
  by Lawrence A. Fogel
• Due diligence and leadership: healthcare financial managers with some gray in their hair may recall a time when no one in health care had heard of due diligence
  by Jim Summers
• Health Directions
• Report shows people at risk for poor health care across United States
• Thursday Golf Tournament
• Stop the paper chase! Document management for today's hospitals
• CMS clarifies rural status for transitional outpatient payments
• AHA: hospitals play important role in nation's economy
• Beneath the hype: MMA provisions you to know: the prescription drug benefit may be the most highly touted aspect of the new Medicare bill, but other provisions have more immediate significance for hospitals
  by Thomas W. Coons
• I read with interest the excellent article titled "Diversity: How Does It Help?" by Jim Summers, PhD, CHE, and Michael Nowicki, EdD, FACHE, FHFMA, in the February 2004 issue of hfm
  by Thomas C. Dolan
• Bon Secours Richmond Health System