News
Who are the ‘high-need, high-cost’ patients?
July 30, 2018
Significant predictors included Medicare or Medicaid insurance, lower income, first hospitalization in a large rural hospital, high comorbidity burden, obesity, and hospitalizations for infections.
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CMS proposes site-neutral payments for hospital outpatient setting
July 26, 2018
Site-neutral payments could save the government – and patients – money on every visit.
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CMS considers expanding telemedicine payments
July 17, 2018
The proposed rule would pay doctors for an expanded number of telemedicine services and add payment for virtual check-ins by phone or other technologies.
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Benefits, drawbacks when hospitalists expand roles
July 13, 2018
Not all role expansion in hospital medicine is good role expansion, experts say.
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The rapidly disappearing community pediatric inpatient unit
July 12, 2018
Across the U.S., pediatric inpatient units in community hospitals have failed to even flirt with breaking even.
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Health care, technology, and the future
June 25, 2018
How do we improve the efficiencies of health service delivery while preserving the fundamental human qualities?
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News
Do free meals to physicians affect opioid prescribing?
June 19, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Physicians who received 1 free meal made about 150 opioid claims; those who received more than 10 made more than 700 claims.
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Giving hospitalists a larger clinical footprint
June 14, 2018
Given current hospitalist work structures, who can possibly think about the “whole patient”?
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Opinion
The work schedule that prevents burnout
June 12, 2018
There is lots of value in thinking carefully about your group’s work schedule and making adjustments where needed.
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News
A U.S. model for Italian hospitals?
June 7, 2018
Hospital-based physicians in Italy are looking with great interest at the American hospitalist model.
