Healthcare Financial Management

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Articles in July, 2005 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Hospice conditions of participation changes proposed
• Revenue cycle upgrades: increase cash flow and lower expenses
• Cascade Health Network
• Detroit Medical Center
• See ANI memories online
• Making prices make sense: a balanced approach to defensible prices: this project is a collaborative effort by MedAssets and the Healthcare Financial Management Association
• Study: federal health coverage expansion proposals have disparate impact across states
• Fixing a broken healthcare system: we all know that the healthcare system is broken. Badly
  by Suzanne F. Delbanco
• Wilson N. Jones
• The effective date by which all organ procurement organizations, rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers, and community mental health centers are required to submit their Medicare cost reports in a standardized electronic format has been
• Supreme court overturns Arthur Andersen conviction
• Using report cards to sustain revenue cycle improvement: we manage what we can measure, and we manage well what we measure well
  by David Haray
• National healthcare expenditures expected to grow at 7 percent annually through 2014
• Vital signs: taking the pulse of your managed care contract performance
  by Pamela M. Waymack
• Specialty hospital rise could add to full-service hospital woes: do physician-owned specialty hospitals adversely affect the communities they are intended to serve? Results of a recent study suggest they do
  by Keith Moore
• Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital
• Quotes of note
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• National health IT initiative moves into action an interview with David Brailer
  by Carole J. Bolster
• Millennium Management VI
• UB-04 specifications now available
• Hoyler receives Morgan Award
• The challenge of delivering cost-effective, quality care
• Calendar
• Correction
• Hospital charity care may be underreported, survey finds
• Older Americans less willing to sacrifice physician-hospital choice to save costs
• Improving hospital budgeting and accountability: a best practice approach: if your organization is struggling to achieve its budget targets, your budget process itself may be the culprit. It may also hold the solution
  by Jonathan J. Clark
• Scott and White Clinic
• The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued Statement No. 154, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections, a replacement of Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 20 and FASB Statement No. 3
• Shrinking number of emergency departments handle more visits
• Pushing healthcare IT into the 21st century: talk about your political odd couples
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• Robert Barber, DHA, FHFMA: the reasons I'm hooked on HFMA
• NCQA to develop EHR system certification
• Bill would revise physician payment formula
• Four methods for improving performance: a comparison
  by Rosemary A. Baczewski
• St. James Hospital and Health Centers
• HFMA's biennial career and compensation guide: featuring results of HFP1A's 2005 Compensation Survey
• Promoting access to care in rural and underserved areas: is there a physician shortage in the United States? Some statistics say "no." Others say "yes."
• Scorecards and dashboards using financial metrics to improve performance: the balanced scorecard and its natural subset, the dashboard, can help keep you focused on the critical areas that affect your hospital's overall performance
  by William O. Cleverley
• Betting on the 80/20 rule: it's a familiar equation in most industries: 80 percent of your revenue comes from 20 percent of your customers. Is that also true for health care—an industry that is mandated to serve all who come?
  by Arthur C. Sturm, Jr.
• Gaining community support: the ongoing attack on not-for-profit hospitals related to their billing and collection practices is baffling to most of us in the field
  by Richard L. Clarke
• National health information network plans announced
• FASB proposes GAAP hierarchy
• Growth, technology focus at investor conference
• New commission on a high performance health system
• Medical costs exceed $12k for typical family
• Profitable growth requires choices: are you waiting for the revenue fairy to help your organization grow?
  by Larry Scanlan
• Hospital transfers account for increasing percentage of Medicare costs
• Understanding the business side of health care: every morning when I come in to work, I try to walk around the hospital to get a sense of what is going on in the facility
  by Richard Rodriguez
• HFMA submits statement to house ways and means committee
• Performance is reality how is your revenue cycle holding up? Do the typical key performance indicators—gross receivables, accounts receivable days, and cash collections—tell you enough about your hospital revenue cycle?
  by David C. Hammer
• Working with the CIO: how well do you know your CIO?
  by John P. Glaser
• Hearing challenges community benefit concept
• Counter intelligence?
  by Barbara Straub Williams