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Articles in June, 2005 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Hospital-based dialysis centers perspectives from the for-profit sector
  by Peter W. Ketchum
• Betsy Hayden
• Minnesota health systems accept pricing, collection agreements
• ANI at a glance
• CMS publishes HPSA, physician scarcity payment instructions
• Corporate responsibility: not-for-profits—prepare to be held accountable: not-for-profits should heed the call: it's time to prepare for mandatory compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate disclosure requirements
  by John T. Bigalke
• William Wheeler
• Administrative simplification enforcement rule proposed
• Cheryl Mason: zen and the art of healthcare financial management
• Take charge of revenue opportunities
  by John Napiewocki
• A Primer on Hospital Accounting and Finance, Third Edition
• Quotes of note
• Jerry Brantz
• HSAs see rapid growth since September
• The case for quality: effective clinical and financial case management: this project is collaborative effort by Cerner and the Healthcare Financial Management Association
• Keeping clean for compliance: constantly changing healthcare laws and regulations create risk for the unwary. Does your organization have a strategy to identify and monitor its exposure?
  by Lawrence A. Fogel
• States balk at picking up tab for coverage of large retailer employees
  by Chris Bandoli
• John L. Alley
• Proposed FY06 inpatient payment rule: payment for data reporting
• Long-term care sector sees 400 percent increase in liability cost
• Richard Rodriguez and the business of caring: Richard Rodriguez, FHFMA, brings experience with finance and operations, along with Texas-bred wisdom, to his HFMA chairmanship
• A good year: by all important measures, HFMA just completed a very good fiscal year. More than 5,000 new members joined the Association between June 1, 2004, and May 31, 2005
  by Richard L. Clarke
• The challenges of Medicaid: between the president's focus on Social Security and the release of the latest Medicare Trustees report this spring, most of the media's attention has been focused on these two federal programs. But it is Medicaid that is prese
  by Gail R. Wilensky
• Jeffrey P. Fritsche, CPA
• Studies focus on uninsured workers
• Idea exchange exhibit
• GAO recommends more specific criteria for IRF classification
• What health care can be an expanded role for financial leaders: glimmers of changes to healthcare governance, policy, and financing are on the horizon. How can you be a driver of change?
  by Paul H. O'Neill
• Wade Sturgeon
• CMS has added 65 new procedures to the existing 2,464 procedures that Medicare will cover when performed in ambulatory surgery centers, according to a May 4 interim final rule
• Creating competitive advantage: product development: take a look at the following healthcare organizations that are experiencing growth and financial return because they know what product lines are profitable for them to cultivate. Can you say the same th
  by Alan M. Zuckerman
• "The greatest comebacks start here"
• A financial fitness regimen for improved capital access: here are five steps you should take now to improve your hospital's access to capital
  by Kevin T. Ponton
• Managing the workaholic : Have you ever seen a headstone that read, "If only I had spent more time at work"?
  by Michael Nowicki
• Laurence E. Laughlin III, FHFMA
• Bradley King, CPA
• Healthcare leaders: pay-for-performance most effective way to reduce healthcare costs
• OIG, CMS to target noncompliance with transfer policy as number of transfer DRGs increases
• Risk factors: to best manage risk, organizations should pursue a strategy that accounts for interrelationships among operations, investments, and financing
  by Catherine J. Robbins
• Judith Scott, FHFMA
• Exhibitors list
• LTCH PPS rule adopts new labor market areas
• HFMA extends condolences to Joyce Zimowski
• Expert panels identify strategic and financial implications of EHR adoption
• Are you prepared for a system loss? Jean-Claude Killy, the famous French skier, once said, "To win, you have to risk loss"
  by David Greenwalt
• Michael Lawton
• Veronica L. Modricker
• Ways and means committee resumes tax-exempt hearings
• Tax-exempt status key issue for P&P Board
• A new identifier for use in standard electronic healthcare transactions is now available, CMS has announced
• Medical outcomes a new approach called "return on risk": the correlation between the quality of health care in an organization and the cost of that organization's risk is hard to deny. So why are providers still acting as if the two are unrelate
  by Gregory R. Morris
• Brian Reilly
• ANI: the Healthcare Finance Conference: June 26-30 program guide
• House committee continues patient billing investigation
• hfm column recognized
• The business of caring: "no margin, no mission"
  by Richard Rodriguez
• Key compliance areas for healthcare financial executives
  by Joanne M. Judge