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Articles in June, 2008 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Costs of PTSD and major depression in veterans for 2 years could total $6.2 billion, says RAND study
• Jonathan R. Edwards
• Carl H. Francioli, CPA
• Jennifer Lasher
• Karen Collins, CPC
• Maryann Freepartner
• Rebecca L. Speight, FHFMA, CPA
• The readiness is all
• Mental disorders cost society billions in unearned income, says NIMH study
• It has come to CMS's attention that inconsistencies exist among billing/claim processing requirements for blood services
• To assist the Medicare community with the transition of workload from legacy fiscal intermediaries and carriers to the Medicare administrative contractors , reassignment of a provider from one FI/MAC to another FI/MAC is generally frozen
• In recent years, there have been several field actions and recalls with regard to failure of implantable cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers
• District of admission?
• We have seen the future, and it is US
• Healthcare providers sue California over cuts in Medi-Cal payments
• The annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals were updated in a final rule published by CMS
• CMS is proposing to update the payment rates used under the PPS for skilled nursing facilities for FY09
• Under a proposed rule , CMS would revise the Medicare hospital inpatient PPS for operating and capital-related costs to implement changes arising from its continuing experience with these systems
• Catch me if you can
• SCHIP directive violates Congressional Review Act: analysis
• One in four uninsured eligible for public insurance but not enrolled
• Health savings accounts used mainly by wealthy Americans: GAO
• Video games: good for your health?
• What's new on our web site
• Making connections: my son, Scott, made friend with a computer engineer in Poland because of a connection on the Internet
  by Robert L. Broadway
• Tuesday breakout session descriptions
• Thursday and Friday events
• Thursday breakout session descriptions
• Got calcium?
• House approves legislation delaying new Medicaid regulations
• Medicaid cuts will affect emergency preparedness: testimony
• Cost of insurance far outpaces income, says report
• Big wheels keep on turning
• Overheard
• The changing role of IT in healthcare
• Digging in: the pitch came in hard, but high and inside—up around my son's eyes
  by Robert Fromberg
• Former HFMA Chairman remembered for service to industry
• Clarke interviewed on impact of HSAs
• HFMA's LTC goes green
• On fiscal wake-up tours and toothless tigers: in what seems to have become an annual exercise in fiscal futility, the Medicare trustees dutifully released their annual report in late March indicating impending fiscal disaster for Medicare
  by Gail R. Wilensky
• A consumer revolution in retail medicine: where is it heading?
  by Ray Kolar
• Best practices for self-pay collections
  by Tina Eller
• The power of connections: HFMA's 2008-09 Chairman Bob Broadway, FHFMA, believes it's vital for healthcare finance professionals to connect their knowledge with healthcare consumers—and for HFMA to connect these professionals with each other
  by Jeni Williams
• The right moves for success with Medicare: the Medicare payment landscape is changing, and hospitals should be taking steps to ensure they receive appropriate payment. Here's how
  by Garri L. Garrison
• Medicare bad debts: are you losing money? With the focus on bad debt increasing, it is important to understand CMS's stance on this issue
  by Joanne B. Erde
• MIP on the radar: the new drive to end Medicaid fraud: two years ago, CMS launched a new effort to detect and prevent Medicaid program fraud and abuse
  by John Fusto
• Rural hospitals: are you missing out on drug savings? The 340B Drug Pricing Program has the potential to reduce outpatient pharmaceutical costs for qualifying hospitals—but many rural hospital administrators are unaware of their organization's eligib
  by Andrea Radford
• RAC 'em up: are you prepared for the national recovery audit program? To date, healthcare organizations in only a few states have experienced the financial impact of the RAC program, but soon, the program's reach will span the United States
  by George Colman
• Super CFO: hospital financial leaders soar to new leadership heights: hospital CFOs can no longer reside in financial silos. They must step forward to become strong, strategic leaders who can tackle the considerable demands of today's complex healthcare w
  by Karen M. Sandrick
• Patient registration quality assurance tools
  by Paul Shorrosh
• How to partner with physicians for higher growth and quality: some healthcare finance executives assume that it's difficult to engage physicians on hospital operational and financial issues, but that's not the case
  by Quint Studer
• What would you do? Is this system's smaller hospital a keeper?
  by Alan M. Zuckerman
• Karen Lumpp, CPA
• Aimee C. Arata
• Keith E. Braganza, FHFMA, CMA
• New techniques needed to manage accuracy of MS-DRGs
• A new script: good actors in a bad play. I've used this phrase before to describe the plight of healthcare financial leaders who try to navigate the dysfunctional U.S. healthcare financing and payment systems
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Make the connection at ANI 2008
  by Robert L. Broadway
• Sunday and Monday events
• National coaching courses descriptions
• Preconference seminar descriptions
• Preconference workshop descriptions
• Tuesday events
• Wednesday events
• Idea exchange exhibitors list
• ANI: the Healthcare Finance conference
• James Carville and Mary Matalin make your voices heard in Washington
• Putting meaning into healthcare reform: a look at the major drivers of healthcare inflation points to 14 strategies that have the potential to dramatically curb costs
  by Ray Lefton
• Wednesday breakout session descriptions
• Idea exchange exhibitors list
• Working with health information management for revenue cycle improvement