Practice Management
Practice Management
Cost transparency fails to affect high-cost medication utilization rates
Clinical question: Does cost messaging at the time of ordering reduce prescriber use of high-cost medications?...
News
MedPAC recommends scrapping MIPS, gets pushback from doctors
While MIPS is not perfect, doctors are not likely to be pleased by having to shift midstream.
News
CMS launches advanced APM focused on bundled payments
The program “builds on the earlier success of bundled payment models and is an important step in the move away from fee for service.”
Practice Management
Phoenix Children’s Hospital integrates care from ground up
More than 1,000 physicians in the Phoenix metro area are part of a hospital network with incentive-laden contracts for meeting care and wellness...
News
Sexual harassment
Which physician behaviors and health care workplace environments cross the line into sexual harassment?
News
Analysis: Hospital pay for performance not significantly improving Medicare outcomes
“Policymakers in the [United States] should consider one of two things: revise the current program or potentially end it.”
Practice Management
How will SNF readmissions penalties affect hospitalists?
Skilled nursing facilities will soon be penalized up to 2% of their Medicare reimbursement for posting higher-than-average rates of hospital...
Public Policy
Hospitals will feel the squeeze of DSH payment changes
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has altered the formula previously used to determine disproportionate share payments, and there...
Practice Management
Reducing outpatient medication costs
Hospitalists used data to create a new algorithm-based tool to further reduce prescription cost.
Quality
Using “design thinking” to improve health care
With design thinking, the innovations come from those who actually work in health care spaces.