Chapter Resources
These links take you directly to what you are looking for and not just another site where you have to search for the information. These will be updated frequently, so check back often.
The following links are to other helpful sites:
Associations:
- Iowa Hospital Association
- American Hospital Association
- Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- National Association of Rural Health Clinics
- National Rural Health Association
- HFMA's Knowledge Center
Fiscal Intermediaries:
- Home Page For Iowa Medicare Carrier, Noridian
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama
- Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators (GBA)
- WPS Medicare
Federal:
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- US Department of Health and Human Services
- Federal Register
- Federal Poverty Guidelines
- Internal Revenue Service
- Occupational Safety & Hazard Admin. (OSHA)
- Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
- FedWorld
- Thomas: US Congress - Bills, Congressional Record, Committee Information
- US Senate
- US House of Representatives
State of Iowa:
- Code of Iowa
- Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS)
- State of Iowa Homepage
- Iowa Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (FLEX)
- Iowa Medicaid Enterprise
Statistics & Benchmarking:
- American Hospital Directory - detailed statistical and financial information on virtually every hospital in the U.S.
- CFO.com - benchmarking data.
- The New York Public Library: Science, Industry, and Business Library
- Census Bureau Health Insurance Stats
Professional Development:
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
- Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors (AHIA)
- CPA Net
- Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
- Iowa Society of CPA's
- National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC)
- Department of Professional Regulation - Illinois licensing.
- Iowa HFMA Linked In Home Page
Health Care Products:
Health Care Information - General:
- Administrators in Medicine (AIM) DocFinder
- American Academy of Pediatrics - child safety and health information.
- American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG)
- Healthfinder: Consumerism & Human Services - information developed by U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- Health Web - links to health information.
- Intelihealth - home to John Hopkins.
- Iowa Medical Society (IMS) Online
- Mayo Clinic & Foundation for Educational Health and Research
- National Institute of Health (NIH)
- U.S. National Library of Medicine - medlines, health information.
- Wellmark of Iowa
Health Care Information - Cancer Related:
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- American College of Surgeons
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association
- MayoClinic Health Oasis
- Medscape Today
E-mail Addresses & Contact Information:
- Chuck Grassley (Republican): chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov
- Tom Harkin (Democrat): tom_harkin@harkin.senate.gov
- Bruce Braley: Click here for website
- Dave Loebsack: Click here for website
- Tom Latham: tom.latham@mail.house.gov
- Leonard Boswell: rep.boswell.ia03@mail.house.gov
- Medicare: WPS Aileen Sigler, Outreach Analyst email: aileen.sigler@wpsic.com
- 333 Farnam Street, Suite 600 402-351-6419 Phone
- Omaha, NE 68131 402-351-8047 fax
- Medicaid: Robert Schlueter Email: rschlue@dhs.state.ia.us
