Beyond Health Care: Mississippi Hospitals As Vital Economic Engines
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-   RIMS multipliers (the multipliers used to quantify economic impacts of state and regions)

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• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended by one week the deadline for hospitals to submit inpatient quality data. The new deadline is Nov. 21. The original deadline was Nov. 15.
• CMS Releases 2009 Outpatient PPS, ASC and Physician Fee Schedule Final Rules
• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended by two weeks the deadline for hospitals to submit outpatient quality data. The new deadline is Nov. 15. The original deadline was Nov. 1.
• Judge Singletary rules Barbour's proposed GRT unconstitutional
• CMS releases RAC Evaluation Report
• Fact Sheet: CMS' plan to transition responsibility for measuring and preventing improper payments to inpatient and long-term care hospitals from QIOs to other Medicare contractors
• Tobacco Free Hospitals
• MHA's comment letter on CMS' proposed Medicaid cuts
• CMS' proposed rules on IGTs and its effect on Mississippi hospitals
• MHA Fact Sheet: Mississippi's Medicaid DSH program
   

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Nov. 6-7 - MHA Society for Marketing & Public Relations Annual Meeting, MHA Conference Center, Madison

November 13 - MHA Society for Hospital Auxilians and Volunteers Annual Meeting, Hilton Hotel, Jackson

November 20 - Quarter Century Gala, MHA Building, Madison

December 19 - MHA Board Meeting, Hyatt Hotel, Jackson

January 15, 2009 - Advocacy Day, Jackson Marriott, Jackson

June 24-26, 2009 - MHA's annual Leadership Conference, Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, Biloxi

For MHA educational offerings, visit the MHA Education Calendar.