Practice Management
Practice Management
Scheduling patterns in hospital medicine
Two scheduling patterns are emerging in hospital medicine – smaller programs are utilizing a Monday to Friday schedule and larger programs are...
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VIDEO: How to manage surgical pain in opioid addiction treatment
NEW ORLEANS – It is possible to give opioid addiction patients opioids for post-op surgical pain without increasing the risk of relapse.
News
Firearms’ injury toll of $3 billion just ‘a drop in the bucket’
Real cost of firearms injuries could be drastically higher than has been estimated, researcher said.
News
Study: EHR malpractice claims rising
Claims involving EHRs have more than doubled in the last 7 years, according to an analysis.
Practice Management
Thinking about productivity: Survey data 2017
The high demand for hospitalists is probably the most significant force causing hospitalist compensation to rise faster than in most other...
Practice Management
SHM pushes to protect patients from ‘surprise’ out-of-network expenses
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.
News
Advance care planning benefit presents challenges
Some are having success using new Medicare billing codes, while other doctors say barriers are preventing usage.
Public Policy
SHM suggests tweaks to CMS QPP proposal
The Society of Hospital Medicine approves of the direction CMS is heading when it comes to measuring pay-for-performance for hospitalists in its...
Practice Management
‘Observationists’: Ready for prime time in an internal medicine residency program
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
Organizations can combat physician burnout, and the effort is worthwhile, as well as morally and ethically important.