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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding Risk for Doctors and Financial Advisors
By Calvin W. Wiese; MBA, CPA
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Hospital capital investments financial create risk. Risk is the uncertainty of future events. When hospitals make capital investments, they commit to costs that affect future periods. Those costs are known and relatively fixed. What are unknown are the benefits to be realized by those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarefinancials.wordpress.com&blog=1867671&post=18965&subd=healthcarefinancials&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicine Needs to get Back to Hands-on Basics, Rather than Focusing on Technology
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According to Rahul Parikh MD, there is plenty to criticize in our bungling trek toward health reform. Leaders on the right, left and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have sidestepped the crucial conversation of controlling the cost of care, in favor of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarefinancials.wordpress.com&blog=1867671&post=18851&subd=healthcarefinancials&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the American Dental Association
By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS
Today, I especially cherish my right as a dues-paying member of the ADA &#8211; and as an American &#8211; to share my blunt, un-requested opinion as if you were a colleague, a patient or disinterested lawmaker.
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		<description><![CDATA[Very &#8230; It’s Imperative
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Emergency physician Shadowfax is recruiting doctors for his hospital, and balances the typical choices one must make balancing clinical knowledge versus interpersonal skills.
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One deal-breaker is the lack of modern computer skills. Unfortunately, in this modern age, if an employee can’t use a computer effectively … read more! 
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		<description><![CDATA[Insured versus Insurer [A Polite Socratic Invitation]

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		<description><![CDATA[Only-in-America
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CMS Cuts Medicare 21% for Doctors Unless Congress Acts
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [CMS] just reported to the American Medical News that the final 2010 Medicare physician fee schedule confirms 21.2% pay cut starting Jan. 1, 2010, unless Congress adopts legislation to avert it.  
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		<description><![CDATA[A Commonfund Report
By Roy Chernus
SK Communication, LLC for Commonfund
Did you know that nonprofit healthcare organizations reported average investment returns which dropped [minus] -21.2% in fiscal year 2008, ending December 31st 2008?
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		<description><![CDATA[Selling Patients like Baseball Players – Seriously
By Staff Reporters
Here is a health care reform strategy that we have not heard of before. It was formulated by healthcare futurist Joe Flowers, and is reposted below for your review.
It first posits this question, and then gives a plausible answer, with unique new operational strategy.
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		<title>Part D Payer Shares of Prescriptions Dispensed Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increase for Eight Major Drug Classes
By Staff Reporters

The shares of all prescriptions dispensed covered by Medicare Part D rose by at least three percentage points, between midyear 2007 and midyear 2009, in each of eight major drug classes profiled.
Assessment
The largest percentage increases over this period were in the osteoporosis (to 26.9% in 2009 from 20.5% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarefinancials.wordpress.com&blog=1867671&post=18780&subd=healthcarefinancials&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HCG Forecast: Fall/Winter 2009 Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Care Group  
By Cheryl Sprows
Three new topics in this issue:
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New Regulations for Business Associates
New Breach Notification Requirement under HIPAA
Workplace Harassment &#8211; Did you hear the one about?

Link: https://www.thehealthcaregroup.com/Productdownloads/2009fallwinterforecast.pdf
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAC RESULTS TO-DATE [Beta]
By Staff Reporters
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS], RACs collected about $1-B in improper payments during their recent beta testing period. Of these payments; 96% were over-payments, 4% were under-payments; and 77% of providers failed to appeal, 7% appealed successfully and 15% appealed unsuccessfully. 
Going forward there will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarefinancials.wordpress.com&blog=1867671&post=18681&subd=healthcarefinancials&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasing Health 2.0 Financial Transparency
By Staff Reporters
www.PriceDoc.com is a free online service that empowers consumers to take control of their healthcare costs. PriceDoc allows patients to search for medical providers in their local area and compare fee schedules for specific procedures.  
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do You Trust Mary?
By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA
[Publisher-in-Chief]
Did you know that according to this new website, the mission of the US Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation?
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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When Will Costs Outweigh Health Information Technololgy? 
By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS
At what point will security data breaches become so costly that dentists will abandon computerization and return to pegboards and ledger cards?
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