Healthcare Financial Management

1. Hospital-Physician Rift Leads to "Medical Arms Race"
Deteriorating relations between hospitals and physicians are imperiling a wide range of healthcare objectives.
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2. Take This Job and Love It
If your staff won the lottery tomorrow, would they show up for work?
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3. Study shows Americans still not enthusiastic about CDHPs.
Americans have not yet warmed to consumer-directed health plans, and satisfaction continues to lag when compared with more comprehensive health insurance, according to a survey ...
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4. Baptist Health Care's standards of performance.
Baptist Health Care, based in Pensacola, Fla., has established standards of performance for all of its employees. Written in 1996 by a cross-representation of employees ...
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5. Do we detect a note of cynicism?
DO WE DETECT A NOTE OF CYNICISM? An AARP Bulletin poll reported in November that 64% of adults surveyed favor legalizing the purchase of prescription ...
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6. Bert Amison (Lone Star Chapter).
Mr. Amison has been promoted from director to managing director, KPMG, Dallas.
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7. A Spreading Problem
A SPREADING PROBLEM: The United States isn't the only country with a growing obesity problem. According to the Associated Press, the prevalence of obesity in ...
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8. Federal register.
... CMS has issued a final rule (Federal Register, Nov. 27, 2006) revising the requirements regarding hospital conditions of participation for completion of history and ...
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9. Increasing competition one of top health industry trends of '07: study.
A major trend that will affect physicians and hospitals in 2007 is the increasing competition from retailers that have opened health mini-clinics, predicts PricewaterhouseCooper's Health ...
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10. Susan Butzko (Eastern Michigan Chapter).
Ms. Butzko has been named lead reimbursement analyst, Health Alliance Plan, Southfield, Mich. She had been senior reimbursement analyst, M-CARE, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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