title: The assault on your financials.
abstract: Hospital executives are confronting what may be unprecedented pressure on their bottom lines as forces converge from all directions: Medicare cuts brought on by the Balanced Budget Amendment, slow pays and denial of claims by managed care plans, the staggering cost of new technology, and big increases in pharmaceutical costs.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haugh
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Thrall
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics; D007182:Income; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D007449:Investments / Q000191:economics; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States