Practice Management
Practice Management
Bringing hospitalist coverage to critical access hospitals
Virtual hospitalists can expand coverage.
HM19
HM19: Practice management tips for pediatric HMGs
Administrative and clinical leaders of pediatric HMGs should develop goals to optimize work-life integration for staff.
News
Report: Part B funds stable, hospital trust running out
Annual report shows Medicare’s Part B trust fund is secure, while Medicare’s Part A trust fund will deplete in 7 years.
Practice Management
Top 10 things physician advisors want hospitalists to know
Hospital medicine providers should more routinely engage with their institutional physician advisors.
News
How to incorporate the gender wage gap into contract negotiations
PHILADELPHIA – Don’t view a woman asking for something as demanding or harsh when a male asking for the same exact...
Practice Management
In defense of hospital administrators
Doctors and administrators come to health care from very different starting points.
News
MAT access helps address opioid use disorder
PHILADELPHIA – Incarceration is an accelerant in the crisis of opioid use disorder.
News
Cost gap widens between brand-name, generic drugs
Generics represent almost 90% of prescriptions filled in the United States but less than 25% of spending.
Practice Management
Nontraditional specialty physicians supplement hospitalist staffing
Emergency medicine and critical care physicians had the largest representative increase in HM groups.
Quality
In search of high-value care
Successful adoption of high-value care practices requires a disciplined approach.