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Video
VIDEO: How to manage surgical pain in opioid addiction treatment
October 25, 2017
NEW ORLEANS – It is possible to give opioid addiction patients opioids for post-op surgical pain without increasing the risk of relapse.
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News
Firearms’ injury toll of $3 billion just ‘a drop in the bucket’
October 24, 2017
Real cost of firearms injuries could be drastically higher than has been estimated, researcher said.
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News
Study: EHR malpractice claims rising
October 20, 2017
Claims involving EHRs have more than doubled in the last 7 years, according to an analysis.
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Opinion
Thinking about productivity: Survey data 2017
October 20, 2017
The high demand for hospitalists is probably the most significant force causing hospitalist compensation to rise faster than in most other specialties.
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News
SHM pushes to protect patients from ‘surprise’ out-of-network expenses
October 13, 2017
Patients should not be on the hook for costs related to out-of-network insurance coverage when a hospital is in-network, medical societies say.
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News
Advance care planning benefit presents challenges
October 12, 2017
Some are having success using new Medicare billing codes, while other doctors say barriers are preventing usage.
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News
SHM suggests tweaks to CMS QPP proposal
October 5, 2017
The Society of Hospital Medicine approves of the direction CMS is heading when it comes to measuring pay-for-performance for hospitalists in its Quality Payment Program.
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News
‘Observationists’: Ready for prime time in an internal medicine residency program
September 28, 2017
Teaching and exposure to observation medicine is not currently a mainstay in many internal medicine residency programs, but perhaps it should be.
News
Battling physician burnout delivers monetary benefits for health care organizations
September 25, 2017
Organizations can combat physician burnout, and the effort is worthwhile, as well as morally and ethically important.
Opinion
New hospitalist unit has stellar patient satisfaction scores
September 22, 2017
Here’s how a hospitalist group in Ohio achieved top quartile performance on the Physician Communication domain of the HCAHPS survey.
