News
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Allowing Specialty Society Registries To Submit Quality Data to PQRS
December 19, 2013
SHM committees continue working on viable options for hospitalists
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Hospitalists’ Role in PQRS, Pay for Performance Gets Boost
- Greg Seymann, MD, SFHM;
- Josh Boswell
November 1, 2013
SHM effort supports adding inpatient codes to Physician Quality Reporting System to help hospitalists participate in Value-Based Payment Modifier program
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SHM Introduces Discounted PQRS Through New Learning Portal
October 1, 2013
Allows hospitalists to report data on quality measures for services for Medicare beneficiaries at a lower rate
News
PQRS and VBP Is Mixing Politics and Money; What Could Be More Dicey
- Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSCR, SFHM;
- Physician Editor;
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April 2, 2012
Patrick Torcson, MD, SFHM, outlines physician reimbursement initiatives important to hospitalists
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A novel approach to MIPS quality reporting for facility-based providers
- Josh Boswell;
- Joshua Lapps
February 20, 2019
Facility-based measurement represents a massive philosophical and practical shift in CMS measure reporting.
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MACRA: What every hospitalist needs to know
- Joshua Lenchus, DO, RPh, FACP, SFHM;
- Nasim Afsar-Manesh, MD, SFHM;
- Suparna Dutta, MD, MS, MPH
March 10, 2017
Nearly every hospitalist will be affected; the majority will use the MIPS pathway in 2017.
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U.S. health care policy: What lies ahead?
January 5, 2017
Uncertainty is the new normal – still, experts say hospitalists are primed to help shape American health care.
Opinion
Keeping up with New Payment Models
December 7, 2016
For hospitalists, the arrival of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS, originally Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, or PQRI) marks the swerve in reimbursement complexity
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Everything You Need to Know About the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative
November 9, 2016
BPCI might be a game-changer for HM because it’s the first of the bundled-payment initiatives that truly falls direct to the care provided by hospitalists
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MACRA Rule Offers Little Clarity for Hospitalists
July 2, 2016
Last year, Congress put an end to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), which had become a yearly battle fought on behalf of and by physicians to prevent significant last-minute cuts to Medicare reimbursement.