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Inside the September 2010 Issue

Cover Story

By scoring self-pay accounts and segmenting them using expected cash value and payment behavior, hospitals can more effectively work these accounts and yield higher collections.

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Coming in October

See how a dyad leadership model can successfully integrate physicians into a hospital's leadership and governance structures.

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Also in the September 2010 Issue

Weighing the Benefits and the Risks of ACOs

By Chad Mulvany

The Medicare Bundled Payment Pilot Program: Participation Considerations

By Jonathan W. Pearce and John M. Harris

Blunting the Negative Impact of Healthcare Reform

By Venson Wallin, Jr., Lynne Parrott, and John Simon

Improving the Revenue Cycle by Taking the Patient's Perspective

By April Langford, Lyda Dye, Jessica Moresco, and Donald C. Riefner

Web Extra: UPMC eCommerce Technology

Inside the Audit and RAC Preparation Process at Norton Healthcare

By Janice Redden and Kate Banks

Measuring the True Return of Your Hospital's Revenue Cycle

By Jeffrey M. Nieman

Is Your Property Tax-Exempt Status at Risk?

By Tom Mason

Medical Tourism: Game-Changing Innovation or Passing Fad?

By Howard R. Underwood and Harvey J. Makadon

Nurse Staffing: Finding the Right Number and Mix

By Kathleen D. Sanford

Physician Practice and Hospital Revenue Cycle Drivers: What's the Difference?

By Shelby L. Boggs

Web Extra: Crucial Policies for Physician Practice Management

How CFOs Can Help Compensation Committees Make Better Decisions

By C.J. Bolster and Bill Quirk

Turning Data into Actionable Information - and Improved Outcomes

By Richard Bankowitz

The Endowment Model: Alive and Well

By Sarah Vigneron

Data Trends: Medicaid Payer Mix Varies Widely by State

Featured Columns

From the Chair

Forward-looking hospitals are seeking ways to better assess revenue cycle performance. HFMA's recently launched MAP, a comprehensive revenue cycle strategy, helps hospitals meet this need.

From the President

HFMA has taken a major step toward supporting hospitals' revenue cycle performance improvement efforts with its new MAP initiative for revenue cycle excellence.

From the Editor

A special hfm section on MAP Award winners demonstrates how revenue cycle change can be akin to a new beginning.

Eye on Washington

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is now projected to remain solvent until 2029, but many are skeptical. Gail Wilensky looks at potential problems with the projections.

Healthcare Finance News

Moody's: Not-for-Profit Medians Improve

Reversing FY08 median declines, not-for-profit hospitals showed improvements in all major ratios and all rating categories in FY09, according to an August 25 report from Moody’s Investors Service.

CBO Projects Rising Healthcare Costs, Declining Employment

The Congressional Budget Office, in its budget and economic outlook update for FY10-FY20, projects that the nation will face daunting long-term fiscal challenges posed by the aging population and rising costs for health care.

Clarke Again Ranks Among 100 Most Powerful in Health Care

For the ninth consecutive year, HFMA President and CEO Richard L. Clarke, DHA, FHFMA, has been named to Modern Healthcare magazine’s list of the 100 most powerful people in health care.

Employers Revising Benefit Plans in Wake of Reform Law: Survey

A majority of large U.S. employers are planning to make changes to their 2011 healthcare benefit programs in the wake of both health reform and expected large health benefit cost increases next year, according to a new National Business Group on Health survey.

Etcetera

An HFMA member develops a passion for flying after learning his father was a World War II aviator. Also, read a selection of "overheard" quotations.

Member Spotlight

Flying High

HFMA member Grant Byers had dreamed of getting his pilot's certificate since he was a child. The discovery that his dad was a naval aviator in World War II prompted him to take the initiative.

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