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Calculating Uncompensated Care Costs
Formulas you can use as a guide to gauge uncompensated care costs within your organization.
The Physician Preference Card
Physicians are essentially seeking four things from hospitals, according to Quint Studer, president of Studer Group®, an outcomes based healthcare consulting firm quality, efficiency, input, and appreciation. The Physician Preference Card is one tool that addresses all of these
Ask the Expert: For-Profit or Not-For-Profit?
Should hospitals form a separate corporation to house their physician practices?
Ask the Expert: Recording Meaningful Use Payments
HFMA's Principles & Practices Board is working on publishing guidance on the recording of meaningful use payments.
HFMA’s Comment Letter on CMS’s Proposed Rule to Delay ICD-10
HFMA prepared a comment on the CMS proposal to change the compliance date for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS medical data code sets that was published in the April 17, 2012, Federal Register.
FY12 IPPS Final Rule Overview
This document provides an overview of CMS's final rule updating the payment rates under the IPPS and the LTCH PPS for fiscal year 2012 (FY12).
CY12 OPPS Final Rule Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides updates to payment rates under the hospital outpatient PPS for CY12.
FY12 Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Final Rule Fact Sheet
This fact sheet contains noteworthy information on the final rule updating payments to Skilled Nursing Facilities in FY12.
CY12 Home Health PPS Final Rule Fact Sheet
This document contains noteworthy information on CY12 prospective payment system updates to home health agencies.
HFMA Proactively Comments on the CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
HFMA urged CMS to take that steps to provide data related to readmissions, align financial incentives across the care continuum, and change how excess readmissions are defined and calculated.