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    News

    A novel approach to MIPS quality reporting for facility-based providers

    February 20, 2019

    Facility-based measurement represents a massive philosophical and practical shift in CMS measure reporting.

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    How policy illustrates the value of SHM membership

    March 23, 2018

    Membership in SHM contributes directly to the advocacy efforts of the Society.

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    Making Sense of Hospitalists and Quality Reporting Programs

    January 28, 2016

    The diversity of hospitalist practice—from the variety of settings (such as inpatient acute, observation, post-discharge clinics, and post-acute-care facilities) to the differences in relationships with their facilities—is a strength of the specialty.

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    Changes to Healthcare that Hospitalists Should Expect in 2016

    December 24, 2015

    On the heels of last year’s repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, 2016 promises to be a year of significant changes for the healthcare system.

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    Risk Adjusting Readmissions: Coming Soon?

    November 4, 2015

    Nearly three-quarters of hospitals will be receiving penalties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2016 for excess readmissions, having failed to prevent enough patients from returning to the hospital 30 days post-discharge.

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    Medicare Develops Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model

    May 5, 2015

    ACO aims to provide more efficient, less costly coordinated care for patients

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    Clear Identification Needed for Hospitalists in Medicare

    September 2, 2014

    Society of Hospital Medicine renews call for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to designate specialty billing code for hospitalists

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    Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier To Make Changes for Hospitalists

    March 1, 2014

    Shift in reimbursement toward quality of care expected to encourage comparison of costs charged by physicians, other hospital medicine groups to same Medicare patients

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    SHM Backs Medicare Reimbursement for End-of-Life Care Counseling

    December 2, 2013

    Proposed legislation would cover advance-care planning consultations between patients, healthcare providers

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    SHM Advocates for Medicare to Cover Skilled-Nursing Facilities

    October 1, 2013

    Hospitalists push to pass Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act that counts observation status toward three-day requirement for SNF patient care

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