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U.S. health care and the first four months of Obama: now that the new occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been decided, it's a good time to take stock of what the new administration will mean to the healthcare industry, and particularly providers
U.S. health care and the first four months of Obama: now that the new occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been decided, it's a good time to...
Healthcare Financial Management, 01/01/09 by Jim Alexander · More from publication -
Bouncing back new to Broxton
LOS ANGELES - The baseball season, for all intents and purposes, expired around here at a little before 8:25 Monday evening, when...
Augusta Chronicle, The, 10/15/08 by Jim Alexander · More from publication -
Healthcare organizations must have an identity theft policy: FACTA or fiction? It's a fact. Under a 2003 law called FACTA , healthcare organizations will soon be required to have in place a policy on identity theft
A June 2008 Federal Trade Commission Business Alert has helped draw attention to FACTA's Nov. 1, 2008, deadline by which affected businesses are to...
Healthcare Financial Management, 09/01/08 by Jim Alexander · More from publication -
Payment by episode: momentum building for bundling? All those wanting to be part of the Medicare payment-by-episode demonstration , come on down! And bring your data and signatures
Participants in CMS's demonstration, officially called the Acute Care Episode (ACE) demonstration, will need to provide data on their orthopedic...
Healthcare Financial Management, 07/01/08 by Jim Alexander · More from publication -
CMS issues management advisory report? In its latest advisory, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has told hospitals, in so many words, that customer relationship management is the wave of the future
CMS issues management advisory report? In its latest advisory, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has told hospitals, in so many...
Healthcare Financial Management, 05/01/08 by Jim Alexander · More from publication -
The lame duck budget: why should you care? Why should you care about a lame duck president's last budget—one up for review by a Democrat-controlled Congress that can't wait for the moving vans to pull up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.?
The lame duck budget: why should you care? There are at least a couple of reasons, one related to legislation, the other to regulation....
Healthcare Financial Management, 03/01/08 by Jim Alexander · More from publication -
VBP: considering the worst case scenario: the CMS value-based purchasing plan has been given to Congress, so is it time to start worrying about Medicare's approach to taking "payment by data" to the next level?
VBP: considering the worst case scenario: the CMS value-based purchasing (VBP) plan has been given to Congress, so is it time to start worrying...
Healthcare Financial Management, 01/01/08 by Jim Alexander · More from publication -
The physician payment quandary
Why should hospitals care about Medicare's payment to physicians, circa 2007? Why should hospitals care about Medicare's payment to physicians,...
Healthcare Financial Management, 11/01/07 by Jim Alexander · More from publication -
Benefit Adequacy Among Elderly Social Security Retired-Worker Beneficiaries and the SSI Federal Benefit Rate
Summary Both target effectiveness and administrative simplicity are desirable properties in the design of minimum benefit packages for public...
Social Security Bulletin, 07/01/07 by Rupp, Kalman; Strand, Alexander; Davies, Paul; Sears, Jim · More from publication -
The fans speak out
I have always wondered who was the all-time home run king before Babe Ruth and the year that Ruth took over the lead. I have always wondered who...
Baseball Digest, 03/01/06 by Jim Alexander · More from publication
