![1]() - News- 12 Things Hospitalists Need to Know About Billing and Coding- January 2, 2013- Proper documentation supports the services you are billing, maximizes your reimbursement 
![1]() - News- Accountability Hits Home for Hospitalists- January 2, 2013- While some hospitalists see the value-based payment modifier (VBPM) program as a penalty, others see an opportunity 
- News- Accuracy Matters When Compensation for Hospitalists Is at Stake- January 2, 2013- Understand how survey calculations were derived in the 2012 State of Hospital Medicine report before developing a compensation plan for your hospitalists 
- News- Paying Attention to Detail Critical in Medical Coding- January 2, 2013- A senior medical coding and education specialist recommends hospitalists give specifics regarding patients' complaints when coding for level of service 
- News- HMX Term of the Month: Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)- January 2, 2013- HCAHPS is a national, standardized survey of hospital patients created to publicly report patients’ perspective of hospital care 
- News- Medicaid Payments for Some Primary-Care Services Reach Parity with Medicare Levels- January 2, 2013- Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) recommendations lead to payments by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for hospitalist-related codes 
![1]() - Opinion- John Nelson, MD: A New Hospitalist- January 1, 2013- How the hospital medicine practice has changed greatly over the past three decades 
- News- Host of Factors Play Into Hospitalist Billing for Patient Transfers- January 1, 2013- Know your role in patient tranfers and avoid common billing mistakes 
![1]() - News- Position Paper on Critical-Care Debate Did Not Address Family Practice Physicians in ICU- January 1, 2013- The main thrust of the paper, "The Critical-Care Debate" article in The Hospitalist, October, 2012 issue, focuses specifically on physicians trained in internal medicine 
- News- More Hospitalists Opt for Part-Time Work Schedules- January 1, 2013- Key issues that physicians should address in their part-time employment contracts 



