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Articles in July, 2003 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Three times as many long-term care workers needed by 2050 - Industry Watch - by 2050, 5.7 million-6.5 million long-term care workers will be needed to meet the healthcare needs of the baby boomers - Brief Article
• FY04 skilled nursing PPS rates proposed - Policy Watch - a discussion of a proposal of a 2.9% increase in payment rates to skilled nursing facilities - Brief Article
• JCAHO tackles emergency department overcrowding - Industry Watch - the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations says that hospitals should develop plans for ER overcrowding - Brief Article
• Caritas Norwood Hospital: back from the brink - Business
  by Robert E. Guyon, Jr.
• Understanding Health System Change: Local Markets, National Trends - Bookshelf - Book Review
  by Jack Dodds
• Parkview Adventist Medical Center - People - appoints Kristin R. Moulton as accounting manager - Brief Article
• State Supreme Court decision poses threat to capital access - Policy Watch - South Dakota's Supreme Court rules that the state can challenge Banner Health System's sale of hospital and nursing home facilities - Brief Article
• Investors Conference speakers warn of tough times ahead - Industry Watch - tougher times are ahead for the finances of hospitals - Brief Article
• Testing and Certification assistance available - HFMA News - HFMA recently releases a report to help in the handling of HIPAA administration - Brief Article
• No place like home: faced with a shortage of clinical coders, some healthcare providers are finding that developing home-based opportunities can aid staff retention and improve their bottom line - Feature Story
  by Teresa Benavidez
• Intermountain Health Care - People - appoints Bert Zimmerli as CFO - Brief Article
• Dear HFMA member or other healthcare finance professional
• HHS has released nearly $14 million in grants to improve rural healthcare delivery and expand access to healthcare services for those residing in rural communities - In Brief - Health and Human Services - Brief Article
• Specialty hospitals treat fewer severely III patients - Industry Watch - Brief Article
• Joseph F. Corfits, Jr., Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO, Central Iowa Health System - Executive Insights - discusses his company's operations - Company Profile
• Thin is in: web-based systems enhance security, clinical quality - Digital Perspectives - for hospitals
  by Gail D. Sausser
• Madole Wagner - People - Rebecca L. Speight joins BKD LLP
• CMS explains payment limits for outpatient rehab - Policy Watch - CMS issues a program memorandum - Brief Article
• Fitch Ratings projects lower costs for HIPAA compliance, survey shows varied HIPAA readiness - Industry Watch
• 2003-04 Regional Executives begin terms - HFMA News - Healthcare Financial Management Association
• Just what the doctor ordered - Feature Story - hospitals need to include physicians in purchase activities and to follow a data-driven selection process
  by Stuart Baker
• US Banc Corp - People - US Banc Corp. Piper Jaffray hires Jordan R. Melick as a vice president - Brief Article
• Patient friendly billing-no longer an oxymorton - From the President - the health care industry is moving toward true 'patient friendly billing' - Editorial
  by Richard L. Clarke
• CMS: final outlier payment rule eases burden on hospitals - Policy Watch - final Medicare outlier rules are published - Brief Article
• CMS announces 2004 Medicare+Choice payment rates - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• Survey: software solutions streamline supply chain - Industry Watch - information technology for healthcare organizations - Brief Article
• Tactics for thwarting silent PPO activity - Managed Care - a discussion of silent PPO payer arrangements for the health care industry
  by Steve Messinger
• The Global Challenge of Health Care Rationing - Bookshelf - Book Review
  by Jack Dodds
• Veritus Medicare Services - People - announces the retirement of director of audit Richard C. Rinschler - Brief Article
• Mortgage financing outlook improves for some hospitals - Policy Watch - hospitals may have another capital financing option - Brief Article
• The final cost savings frontier: new revenue cycle outsourcing approaches
  by Beth Kost
• Report encourages Patient Friendly Billing - HFMA News - Brief Article
• Cutting medical transcription costs: one health system is saving up to 38 percent on its medical transcription costs by using home-based, production-based full-time employees - Feature Story
  by John A. Forsman, Jr.
• Rush Copley Medical Center - People - promotes John Diederich to vice president of ancillary operations - Brief Article
• Peer comparisons promote improved billing practices - Data Trends - hospitals should compare billing patterns among peer hospitals - Illustration
• The HHS Office of Inspector General's updated list of excluded individuals and entities - LEIE - In Brief - Health and Human Services - Brief Article
• Medicaid hits home and states struggle - Eye on Washington - several states still have trouble with Medicaid and balancing their budgets
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Whistle-blowing: does anyone want to hear? - Leadership and Management - healthcare organizations should be more open to whistle-blowing from employees
  by Jim Summers
• William Beaumont Hospital - People - promotes Maureen Fitzgerald - Brief Article
• Middle management pay shows steady increase: increased educational attainments are needed if nonmanagerial finance professionals and middle managers wish to advance both their careers and their compensation gains - health care industry executive compensat
• FASB addresses expensing of stock options - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• Rates, causes of closures similar for rural and urban hospitals - Industry Watch - the rate of both rural and urban hospital closures was about 1%/yr over the previous decade - Brief Article
• HFMA announces 2003-04 Board of Examiners - HFMA News
• Issues in outpatient PPS: keys to successful revenue cycle management - a discussion of revenue performance management in hospitals
• Pinnacle Healthcare, Inc - People - appoints Bernadette Kelleher as director of managed care - Brief Article
• CFO compensation continues to soar - in the health care industry - Illustration
• Medicare payment improvements dropped from final tax bill - Policy Watch - the Jobs and Growth Tax Reconciliation Act of 2003 does not contain the additional Medicare provider payments approved by the Senate - Brief Article
• States grapple with high pharmaceutical costs: states continue to face alarming deficits as they address FY03 budgets and look ahead to state finances for FY04 - State Policy Watch
• OIG reports on tax savings - Industry Watch - Brief Article
• Telemedicine payment: then and now - Medicare/Medicaid - a discussion of the development of telemedicine
  by Mary R. Marta
• Christus Schumpert Health System - People - Grouse Hospital in Syracuse, New York, hires Linda N. Ollis as COO - Brief Article
• St. Francis Hospital & Health Center - People - names David Nelson as vice president of finance and CFO - Brief Article
• CMS proposes Medicare inpatient payment rates for 2004 - Policy Watch - Brief Article
• HFMA: a learning experience; when I attended my first HFMA chapter meeting, the best of the best were sharing their ideas and suggestions with me - From the Chairman - Healthcare Financial Management Association - Column
  by David P. Canfield
• Rep. Nancy Johnson receives BOD Award - HFMA News - Brief Article
• Streamlining the supply chain - Cover Story - for the health care industry
  by Lydon Neumann
• Fletcher Allen Health Care - People - Yale-New Haven Health hires Donald E. Clark as system director of internal audit - Brief Article
• Vista Health System - People - promotes Fatima Elias - Brief Article