Healthcare Financial Management

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Articles in Sept, 2005 issue of Healthcare Financial Management

• Final 2006 nursing home PPS update released
• AHIMA defines personal health record
• Long-term investing and your bond rating: when you take a good look at your healthcare organization's financial condition, do you use a telescope or a microscope?
  by Dennis Doody
• Diagnostic Clinic
• 2004-05 hfm Award winners announced
• Never stop learning!
  by Nancy Borkowski
• The Financial Accounting Standards Board published an exposure draft July 14 of a proposed interpretation, Accounting for Uncertain Tax Positions
• The why, what, and how of hfm magazine: in a few minutes, I'm off to a meeting to draft hfm magazine's editorial calendar for next year
  by Robert Fromberg
• Charting a revenue cycle roadmap
• Salina Regional Health Center
• Resource Center offers highlights on outpatient PPS
• A fresh start for the revenue cycle: the beginning of the revenue cycle is getting a fresh start as healthcare financial managers apply technology and process improvement to patient access
  by Carole J. Bolster
• HHS required to recalculate DSH payments to hospitals
• $156 billion capital investment needed for a national health information network, expert panel says
• Leadership as a learning laboratory: do you routinely document return and value on your hospital's strategic or capital investments?
  by Larry Scanlan
• Alvarez & Marsal
• Master your chargemaster: is your hospital's chargemaster friend or foe? It's a vital element in the revenue cycle, but it can present challenges
  by Duane C. Abbey
• CMS, VA to provide EHR software to physicians
• Beginning Jan. 1, 2006, intermediaries will edit Part B claims that meet or exceed a reimbursement of $50,000
• Wellpoint announces $198 million settlement
• You've paid—now will your EHR perform? Are electronic health records ready for pay for performance?
  by Margret Amatayakul
• Oregon Health & Science University
• Collection reform: build stronger relationships with self-pay patients: looking to avoid bad debt, complaints, and bad publicity due to poor handling of self-pay accounts? Let better training and technology help you identify and serve patients eligible fo
  by Geoffrey J. Hakel
• Senate bill includes grants, loans for healthcare IT
• Healthcare financial management across the pond: the U.K.'s single-payer system greatly simplifies billing and collections
  by Richard Rodriguez
• Big plans: are you satisfied with your organization's method for capital planning? Here's an approach that has worked well for one health system
  by Kevin F. Fitch, Jr.
• Houston Town & Country Hospital
• HFMA educates policy-makers
• opening lines
  by David E. Banko
• States face funding challenge for MHSA treatment coverage
  by Matthew Rosenberg
• Credit benchmarks rise for not-for-profits
• Tracking your claims denials
  by Jeffrey W. Shutak
• Houston Town & Country Hospital
• An automatic response: looking to improve your revenue cycle? For UNC Hospitals, technology was key
  by Matthew Castellano
• The strategic benefits of revenue cycle improvement: what distinguishes high-performing healthcare organizations is an ability to learn from their experiences, and to apply those lessons in positioning themselves strategically
  by Dale R. Stockamp
• Mail-order drugs could save Medicare billions: study
• CMS has published FY06 final allotments available to states to initiate and expand health insurance coverage to uninsured
• Quotes of note
• Fall 2005 seminars
• Capstone Government Solutions
• Going backward into the future: the struggle for equality in medical treatment continues into the 21st century. How can we end it?
  by David Barton Smith
• CMS: 2006 IRF PPS rule "improves distribution of payments"
• Pursuing supply chain gains: how effective is your organization's supply chain performance? If your hospital is like others, it's likely there's room for improvement
  by Gene Long
• The Gallup Organization
• Consumer choice—a worldwide phenomenon: other nations can learn a few lessons from us in providing health care, but we can learn a lot from them, too
  by Richard L. Clarke
• U.S./U.K. exchange celebrates 25th anniversary
• Savings through evidence-based tools
• HFMA chapters bring networking and education close to home
• Recovery audit contractors "RAC" up another challenge for providers
  by Frank Fedor
• No good deed goes unpunished: hospitals that are providing the highest quality care are often finding that their reward is lower payment from Medicare. At last, there's hope that something will be done about this situation
  by Jeanne Schulte Scott
• The International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board each published an exposure draft containing joint proposals to improve and align the accounting for business combinations
• Humana and Wal-Mart to offer new prescription drug plan
• Lake Forest Hospital
• 1st-Nationwide Resources. Inc
• Six steps to an effective denials management program: yes, it used to be just a nuisance. But denials management has become a high priority for savvy healthcare CFOs
  by Brian Robertson
• Bankruptcy's upside: bankruptcy is a strategy. And like most strategies, its success depends on the execution
  by Arthur C. Sturm, Jr.
• Bush signs patient safety bill
• Transfer provisions expanded in final FY06 inpatient PPS rule
• 10 practical tips for successful outsourcing: horror stories about vendors keep many hospitals from capitalizing on the benefits of outsourcing—unnecessarily. Knowing how to prepare for contract negotiations can help you optimize those relationships
  by John M. Callahan
• Vinson & Elkins, LLP
• CTech, L.L.C
• Share the news
• Bringing diverse groups together to resolve issues
  by Ronald Barrow
• "Questionable" guidance
  by Christopher L. Keough