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Survey Insights: It’s All Written in Code
November 30, 2011
The 2011 State of Hospital Medicine report provides details about hospitalist coding practices.
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Exam Guidelines
November 2, 2011
Clinical judgment, medical necessity key to claim submissions
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A Brief History
October 1, 2011
1995 and 1997 documentation guidelines remain in play
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Red Flags within Documentation for Hospitalists
July 1, 2011
With the number of clinical hospitalists still growing, more patients are under HM care, which puts hospitalists at higher risk for lawsuits.
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Academic Institutions
July 1, 2011
Hospitalist involvement, visit level key to teaching physician services
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The Billing & Coding Bandwagon
May 1, 2011
Hospitalists ideally positioned to lead documentation, coding improvement efforts
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POLICY CORNER: new documentation requirement could burden hospitalists
May 1, 2011
CMS Requires Face-to-Face Physician Encounter for Home Health Services
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Due Diligence: Denials
May 1, 2011
Claim rejection often due to mismatched or missing information
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Q&A with Hospitalist Administrator Amit Prachand
April 1, 2011
Amit Prachand, MEng Division Administrator, Hospital Medicine Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago Question: What motivated you to join SHM’s Administrators Task Force (ATF)? A: I wanted to be able to directly interface with the comm
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Q&A with Hospitalist Administrator Kristi Gylten
April 1, 2011
Kristi Gylten, MBA Director, Hospitalist Service, Rapid City (S.D.) Regional Hospital Question: What motivated you to join the Administrators Task Force (ATF)? Answer: I wanted to have the opportunity to meet and network with my peers, and to be a part of developing resources and a place “on t