John Nelson, MD, MHM
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Opinion
Steps Hospitalists Should Take to Reduce Turnaround Time of Death Certificates
July 1, 2013
Timely completion can avoid holdups of burials, cremations, delays of life-insurance payouts and estate settlements
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Opinion
Effective Clinical Documentation Can Influence Medicare Reimbursement
June 1, 2013
Standardization and coordination of documentation practices is key to successful hospital billing
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Opinion
Coordinated Approach May Help in Caring for Hospitals’ Neediest Patients
May 2, 2013
Care plans for frequent fliers can reduce readmission rates, ED visits, and stress
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Opinion
John Nelson: Excessive Workload a Concern for Many Hospitalists
April 2, 2013
Multiple factors contribute to workload concerns expressed by hospitalists
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Opinion
John Nelson: Why Spinal Epidural Abcess Poses A Particular Liability Risk for Hospitalists
February 2, 2013
The delayed diagnosis of, or treatment for, a spinal epidural abcess (SEA) could easily result in a malpractice lawsuit for hospitalists
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Opinion
John Nelson, MD: A New Hospitalist
January 1, 2013
How the hospital medicine practice has changed greatly over the past three decades
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Opinion
John Nelson: Peformance Key to Federal Value-Based Payment Modifier Plan
December 2, 2012
What the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' new pay-for-performance program means to hospitalists
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Opinion
John Nelson: Learning CPT Coding and Documentation Tricky for Hospitalists
November 2, 2012
Tips to keep physician CPT coding straight
Opinion
John Nelson: Heavy Workloads
November 2, 2012
Dearth of data doesn’t green-light high patient census
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Opinion
John Nelson: Post-Discharge Calls
August 29, 2012
Follow-up contact is the most potent patient-satisfaction tool
