Practice Management
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.
Practice Management
Consider ‘impactibility’ to prevent hospital readmissions
Predictive models and clinicians together might produce more effective decisions than either does alone.
Practice Management
New curriculum teaches value-based health care
It is critical that hospitalists understand and embrace the concepts of value, and are able to deliver upon these ideals.
News
ABIM to allow do-overs for all subspecialties with Knowledge Check-In
The option had been available only for internal medicine and nephrology.
Career
Swarm and suspicion leadership
Leaders influence the tone and tenor of their own group’s interactions as well as interactions between different working groups.
Public Policy
How hospitalists can focus on health equity
Experts say hospitals and hospitalists must focus on health disparities to address the multitude of chronic medical conditions they treat.
News
Safety-net hospitals would be hurt by hospital-wide 30-day readmission penalties
Considering all readmissions within 30 days of discharge in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program would modestly increase the number of...
Practice Management
Price transparency of laboratory testing does not change provider ordering habits
Clinical question: Does price transparency of laboratory tests at the point of order entry affect provider ordering behavior?