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Articles in July, 2004 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• SNF residents have special drug card options
• Quotes of note
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Election 2004 implications for providers: after the presidential election, "healthcare change" won't be just a campaign promise any more. Depending on who wins, what can providers expect?
  by Brian D. Gradle
• Seth Zamek, FHFMA
• Monica L. Lambert
• Medicare implications of discounts to the uninsured
  by Christopher L. Keough
• 2005 Medicare Advantage payment rates include risk factors
• Coverage for the uninsured would be a sound investment
• HFMA's Compliance Forum develops Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Checklist
• Calendar
• Thomas Viscariello
• Outpatient procedures are not always the cheapest
• Comprehensive medical malpractice reform: increased rigidity in state legislatures?
• Regina Herzlinger receives BOD Award
• The drug discount card will it cut drug prices for seniors? Medicare's drug discount cards promise savings on prescriptions. Will they deliver?
  by Paul L. Grimaldi
• David Quigley
• Glenna Jackson Heckathorn
• Sustaining a market-based healthcare system: as healthcare costs continue to soar, employers need to change the way they pay for their employees' health care
  by Alain C. Enthoven
• … The HHS Office for Civil Rights , which is responsible for implementation of the HIPAA privacy rule, has announced the creation of an e-mail mailing list to distribute announcements, notices of available resources, and other educational informatio
• April prices rise for hospitals, physician offices
• Back to basics managing IT projects
  by John Glaser
• Robert D. Miller, FHFMA
• Warner Head
• Court upholds California's nurse staffing law
• Physicians get help with technology investments
• Hospital-physician joint ventures threat—or opportunity? Faced with the fact that their clinicians are increasingly becoming their competitors, many healthcare executives are saying, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
  by Roger D. Strode
• Dianne P. Barry
• Timothy Hartnett
• Making the tough choices for cost control: although identifying opportunities to cut costs can be relatively easy, the true test is prioritizing these opportunities in a way that optimizes use of capital and maintains the organization's strategic focus
  by Bryan Smith
• CMS coding changes issued
• Average charges for pediatric hospitalization
• More than a hill of beans' difference: Ralph Nader says there isn't a hill of beans' difference between the two major-party candidates for president, George W. Bush and John Kerry. But even if you agree with Nader's assessment overall, one point is hard t
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• W. Randall Dunning
• Joe V. Fete, PhD
• What you can do to finance the future: facility renovation and expansion, investments in information technology for quality and efficiency improvements, advancements in medical technology—the list goes on and on
  by Richard L. Clarke
• Proposed inpatient PPS rule offers more dollars, more complexity
• My personal toolkit
  by Joyce Zimowski
• Certification changes take effect
• Conquering capacity: by improving its patient flow, one hospital has been able to admit an additional 400 patients since January 2003 and expects to maintain that potential
  by Susan Flanagan
• Mark Kostreba
• Kenneth Robinson, FHFMA, CPA
• Balancing physician and cost-containment demands: in developing strategies to control costs and improve outcomes, CFOs and physicians both need to understand the impact of medication choices
  by F. Randy Vogenberg
• … The fee charged to practitioners who request information about themselves from the National Practitioner Data Bank has decreased from $10 to $8, the Health Resources and Services Administration announced in the May 24 Federal Register
• GAO: amount of care given undocumented aliens hard to assess
• How are hospitals financing the future? Core competencies in capital planning
• Sanda Soerries
• William Gardiner
• CMS answers important questions on uninsured
• Hospitals face tightening access to capital
  by Sarah Norland
• Stark rule explained
• Strategic price setting: ensuring your financial viability through price modeling
• Sandra Kurtz
• Ethel Hoffman
• Delivering bad news
  by J. Larry Tyler
• Home health to get 2.5 percent increase in CY05
• Medicare to pay 8.4 percent more per enrollee in managed care plans
• Member satisfaction survey results released
• The CFO as marketing's champion: when healthcare finance and marketing combine forces, the resulting team is more than the sum of its parts
  by Arthur C. Sturm, Jr.
• Ron McClure
• David Olejniezak