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HFMA ANI 2008: Estimating Fair Market Value for physician pay

July 2, 2008 — 9:25am ET | By Anne Zieger
One of the more vexing problems hospitals and health systems face is figuring out how to pay physicians well enough without offering such high compensation that it might be considered a kickback for... Read more...

HFMA ANI 2008: Hospitals need flexibility for outpatient success

June 26, 2008 — 11:21am ET | By Anne Zieger
Today, hospitals are placing greater importance on developing outpatient ventures that serve their business. However, to succeed, hospital leaders need to be both flexible and opportunistic, rather... Read more...

HFMA ANI 2008: Advice on preparing for a Medicare audit

June 25, 2008 — 11:30pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Today, it's a virtual certainty that you'll come under the watchful eye of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractors, who have been tasked with investigating providers in all 50 states. The question is,... Read more...

HFMA ANI 2008: 'Value' study finds hospital quality high, but price variations wide

June 24, 2008 — 11:26pm ET | By Anne Zieger
As if there aren't enough scorecards for hospitals these days, a healthcare data vendor has unveiled yet another set--and not surprisingly. Given the insatiable demand for hospital transparency, the... Read more...

HFMA ANI 2008: Financial, regulatory pressures broaden healthcare CFO role

June 24, 2008 — 5:26pm ET | By Anne Zieger
The role of the healthcare CFO is changing--and growing broader--as regulatory and social pressures force CFOs to think beyond the balance sheet, according to a new study by Ernst & Young... Read more...

Physician relationships examined

June 19, 2008 — 10:44am ET | By Anne Zieger
As with any healthcare conference, expect plenty of talk at HFMA ANI to focus on relationships with physicians. Unfortunately, as we all know, rules governing physician relationships change with the... Read more...

Updates on regulatory risks

June 19, 2008 — 10:23am ET | By Anne Zieger
Because everyone uses healthcare, regulators take a shot at the system from time to time to prove that they're paying attention. Still, things are particularly intense this year, with tax issues and... Read more...

Helping to qualify the uninsured

June 19, 2008 — 3:43am ET | By Anne Zieger
Despite the fact that it's critical for hospitals to qualify uninsured patients for charity care programs ranging from federal and state insurance to institutional programs within your own... Read more...

Banks in the back seat

June 19, 2008 — 3:21am ET | By Anne Zieger
As everyone knows, this hasn't exactly been a banner year for the lending industry. The pox cast upon the markets by the mortgage meltdown has hit financial organizations everywhere, including those... Read more...

Tools for managing the self-pay patient

June 19, 2008 — 3:04am ET | By Anne Zieger
At this year's show, expect to see a lot of vendors pitching technologies and services designed to help you manage collections for the self-pay patient. It's telling, for example, that Read more...
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