Practice Management
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CMS considers expanding telemedicine payments
The proposed rule would pay doctors for an expanded number of telemedicine services and add payment for virtual check-ins by phone or other...
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Benefits, drawbacks when hospitalists expand roles
Not all role expansion in hospital medicine is good role expansion, experts say.
Practice Management
The rapidly disappearing community pediatric inpatient unit
Across the U.S., pediatric inpatient units in community hospitals have failed to even flirt with breaking even.
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Which patients cost most?
Significant predictors included Medicare or Medicaid insurance, lower income, first hospitalization in a large rural hospital, high comorbidity...
Practice Management
Health care, technology, and the future
How do we improve the efficiencies of health service delivery while preserving the fundamental human qualities?
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Do free meals to physicians affect opioid prescribing?
SAN DIEGO – Physicians who received 1 free meal made about 150 opioid claims; those who received more than 10 made more than 700 claims.
Practice Management
Giving hospitalists a larger clinical footprint
Given current hospitalist work structures, who can possibly think about the “whole patient”?
Practice Management
The work schedule that prevents burnout
There is lots of value in thinking carefully about your group’s work schedule and making adjustments where needed.
Practice Management
A U.S. model for Italian hospitals?
Hospital-based physicians in Italy are looking with great interest at the American hospitalist model.
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Peer mentorship, groups help combat burnout in female physicians
NEW YORK – Female physicians are at higher risk of burnout in part because of lingering implicit and unconscious biases in society and the...
