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Articles in August, 2005 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Peggi-Ann Rufener, CCS, CCS-P
• The OIG recently issued three advisory opinions
• Despite strong revenue, states still face fiscal challenges
• Strategies for effective capital structure management: executive summary
• East is east and wwest is west … and HFMA brings them together
  by Philip Manz
• State budgets: record revenue, so what's the problem? State revenue grew at a rate of 11.7 percent in the third quarter of FY05, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government
  by Lee Dixon
• Stephen B. McPherson
• The OIG has posted its semiannual report to Congress on activities completed for the first six months of FY05
• ANI reminds us of the business of caring: the ANI held in June in Las Vegas was a memorable occasion for many reasons
  by Richard Rodriguez
• Experience more ANI memories online
• Healthcare facility valuation don't forget the physician factor
  by Christopher McCord
• High-middle-low performer conversations: how well do you re-recruit your top performers?
  by Quint Studer
• Stanford study: gap persists between best care knowledge and use
• David T. Kilmer, CHFP, CPA
• IRFs face enforcement of 2004 criteria
• Higher prices—not waiting lists—explain why U.S. healthcare spending is so high
• HFMA offers payment resources
• Using technology to improve denials management
  by Debra Schardt
• Strategic alliances and joint ventures why make when you can buy? For-profit companies—especially other than healthcare—recognize strategic alliances and joint ventures as important approaches to supplement internal capabilities and progress qui
  by Alan M. Zuckerman
• 2004 healthcare spending rose 8 percent
• Ryan J. Fischer
• Distress detectors measures for predicting financial trouble in hospitals: early-warning systems that anticipate financial distress can provide management with powerful tools to help identify and rectify problems before they reach a crisis
  by Corbett A. Price
• 2005-06 regional executives
• A new Justice Department opinion sharply limits the government's ability to prosecute employees of a covered entity for violating the law that protects the privacy of health information in medical records
• Calendar
• Bondholder disclosure and Sarbanes-Oxley; how one medical center aligned best practices: by adopting some sections of Sarbanes-Oxley as best practices in accountability and compliance, Bush University Medical Center achieved its goal of enhancing bondhold
  by Patricia S. O'Neil
• Evaluating internal financial reporting controls
  by Norman H. Godwin
• AMGA awarded CMS Medicare demonstration project
• Cindy M. Hoyt
• 2005-06 national board of directors
• Pay for performance: a win for the NHIN? During a recent conversation with a healthcare CIO, the subject of the National Health Information Network and Regional Health Information Organizations came up
  by Dewey Freeman
• Jim Chatman, FHFMA, CPA
• Study: obesity related health spending jumps
• Clear as glass: transparent financial reporting: if your financial statements aren't transparent, you may be setting your organization up for scrutiny
  by Robert M. Valletta
• 2005-06 national advisory councils
• Supply costs for U.S. hospitals show substantial three-year rise
• Governors take Medicaid recommendations to Congress
• Families USA study: cost of treating the uninsured increases insurance premiums
• Thinking inside the box: using banking technology to improve the revenue cycle: bank on this: medical practices are ideal for pioneering programs in paperless data and financial management
  by Michael D'Eramo
• RHC/FQHC payment process monitoring needed
• Greater scrutiny ahead for consecutive inpatient stays
• Tennessee chapter receives Shelton Award
• New Medicare drug law puts lowest-income elderly at risk, says report
• 2005-06 long-term care PPS instructions published
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Quotes of note
• Moratorium ends, but CMS keeps specialty hospitals on hold
• A taxing question for not-for-profits: Congress is continuing to question whether not-for-profit hospitals are providing sufficient charity care to justify their tax-exempt status. But the question, framed too narrowly, misses most of the reasons not-for-
  by Richard L. Gundling
• 'What would Ben do?' "So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful."
• Transparency and accountability: in June, the Nonprofit Sector on Governance urged Congress to increase resources for more vigorous enforcement of federal and state laws governing charities, including 5013 provider organizations
  by Richard L. Clarke