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HFMA ANI 2009: Case study - Adventist Health implements self-service payments
Increasingly, hospitals are under pressure to recover as much as possible from self-pay patients and collect co-pays and deductibles on the spot. One way to do this is to make it easy for patients to... Read more...
HFMA ANI 2009: News and advice from the RAC front
It's not enough that Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program is going into full swing--CMS is also making some changes as it steams into its national rollout. Here's an update on some of the... Read more...
HFMA ANI 2009: Vendors focus on collecting receivables
If you're a hospital financial manager, you've probably cut costs to the bone and wrung all the inefficiencies you can find out of your operations. To survive, though, that may not be enough--you've... Read more...
HFMA ANI 2009: Tenet's experiences with RACs
Audit, audit, audit -- and while you're at it, document, document and document some more. Those are the mantras that have helped one Tenet hospital survive an initial audit by the dreaded Recovery... Read more...
HFMA ANI 2009: On the verge of healthcare reform
Welcome to the HFMA ANI preview issue! I'm definitely looking forward to my cross-country journey from Fierce's home in DC to Seattle, but like you folks, I'm sure I'll be way too busy capturing the... Read more...
Non-profit hospitals under the gun
Non-profit hospitals have always faced pressure to account for where those tax-exempt dollars are going, but the last few years have been particularly brutal. Of late, many critics have suggested... Read more...
Sharpening your cost-cutting pencil
Lately, healthcare facilities have made some of the deepest cuts they've ever made--and then cut back again. Mass layoffs have become more common than at any point in recent memory, travel has been... Read more...
Preparing for the 'big RAC attack'
No, Recovery Audit Contractors aren't a joke--though one wag recently dubbed their coming the "big RAC attack"--and making sure your institution survives their scrutiny unscathed is a serious... Read more...
Bracing for health reform's impact
Health reform is sweeping through Washington like a cyclone, and with it will come huge changes to how healthcare organizations run, it seems certain. How impacted you are probably depends on what... Read more...
Struggle for capital continues
In the past, health leaders could usually generate the capital they needed through bond offerings or getting standard bank loans, but of late, that just hasn't been a possibility. The bond market is... Read more...
