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- 1From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNATIONAL EVENTS February 5-8, March 3-6, Seminars will cover financial and May 5-8 healthcare business management, HFMA s Spring Seminars revenue cycle improvements, consumer- Charlotte, N.C., New focused practices, and...
- 2From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSo I was struck by Jeff Goldsmith's commentary in this issue of hfm, which identifies political leadership as the key to achieving the elusive goal of improving healthcare claims processing. Goldsmith discusses the...
- 3From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe U.S. healthcare payment system doesn't work. It's unfair, illogical, and nightmarishly complex. Despite recent initiatives, it does not encourage high-quality and cost-effective care. And it struggles to fund care...
- 4From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt reportedly comes as a surprise to states that the Bush administration is imposing restrictions on the ability of states to expand eligibility for Medicaid. The restrictions are the same as those placed on SCHIP in...
- 5From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedICD-9-CM codes are now required to be updated twice a year, instead of a single update on Oct. 1 of each year, in recognition of new technology under the inpatient prospective payment system. Although new diagnosis and...
- 6From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNOTHING SAVED FOR (RETIREES') RAINY DAYS: None of the five largest states--California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas--had put aside money for nonpension of FY06, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts Center for...
- 7From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince 2003, HFMA's Financing the Future project has given healthcare providers information they need to ensure their organizations have the resources necessary to deliver high-quality care for their communities. The...
- 8From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBynum has been appointed vice president, financial and employee services, HCA Inc., Nashville. Previously, she was CFO, John Randolph Medical Center, Hopewell, Va. (an HCA subsidiary)....
- 9From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPerkins has been named director of budget, finance, facilities services, and research administrative manager, the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, S.C. He had been director of administration...
- 10From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed... The treatment of anemia in cancer patients includes the use of erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESAs) such as recombinant erythropoietin and darbepoetin. Although other pharmacologic interventions are possible,...
- 11From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUnderstanding the past is an important way of helping us predict the future. We use that concept regularly in budgeting, modeling, and analyzing results. We often use prior year numbers, adjusted for predicted changes,...
- 12From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMore than two years ago, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reported that hospitals often charge much more than their cost for certain services. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) confirmed these...
- 13From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHowever, increasing interest in quality measurement and reporting is drawing attention to the need for more accurate, consistent, and timely data. The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 created a sense of urgency for...
- 14From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHospitals must increase revenues and improve collections to answer continuing cost pressures. General acute care community hospitals have pursued several strategies, with some success, to enhance net operating revenues...
- 15From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEffective Jan. 1, 2008, all other claims for ESA administrations will also require the reporting of either the most recent hematocrit or hemoglobin reading. In addition, they should contain one of the following three...
- 16From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAt a time when many hospital CFOs are worried about Medicare payment shortfalls, key members of Congress and leading policy analysts in Washington, D.C., are troubled by the Medicare program's economic instability,...
- 17From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing that Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them ."--Marcus Aurelius Advanced...
- 18From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGipson has been appointed vice president, finance, Harris Methodist Forth Worth Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas. Formerly, he was corporate director, decision support, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, Texas....
- 19From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWaits for emergency care are getting longer each year, according to a study published online Jan. 15 by the journal Health Affairs. The study, which analyzed the time between patients' arrivals in the emergency...
- 20From: Healthcare Financial Management. (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe IRS has issued an updated version of Form 990, the return that charities and other tax-exempt organizations are required to file annually. The final form, released Dec. 20, retains the redesigned draft's format of a...