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Crystal ball: The future of hospital medicine
August 14, 2018
Hospital medicine will be functioning very differently in 10 years to respond to today’s challenges.
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CMS pushes ACOs to take on more risk
August 10, 2018
ACOs that only take on upside risk generally are spending more money and not generating savings, according to CMS Adminstrator Seema Verma.
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Ranked: State of the states’ health care
August 7, 2018
Vermont’s good outcomes and low costs have the rest of the country green with envy.
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Documentation and billing: Tips for hospitalists
August 3, 2018
The goal is not to bill as much as possible but rather to document appropriately.
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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?
