Public Policy
News
Out-of-network billing in in-network hospitals adds $40 billion in spending
If out-of-network claims were paid at in-network rates, it could lower spending by $40 billion.
Public Policy
Quick Byte: Act locally
Seek local solutions to pressing public health needs.
Quality
Have lower readmission rates led to higher mortality for patients with COPD?
The evidence of an association between readmissions and mortality has been complicated and conflicting.
Quality
Hospitalists finding their role in hospital quality ratings
Hospitalists are responsible for ensuring that their hospitals excel in the care of patients, experts say.
News
Research on pediatric firearms deaths is underfunded
Much more money is spent to study the other leading causes of death in children and adolescents every year.
Public Policy
Policymakers must invest in health care innovation
Hospitalists are pivotal to the clinical research that drives innovation.
Public Policy
Who makes the rules? CMS and IPPS
The IPPS final rule excluded the proposed broad changes to the MS-DRG system that were in the proposed rule.
From the Society
Flying toward equity and inclusion
A heterogeneous group of people leads to an engaged and high performing culture.
Practice Management
Observation versus inpatient status
Observation care is increasing, and can frustrate patients and hospitalists.
News
Critics say hospital price transparency proposal ‘misses the mark’
The proposal from CMS would require hospitals to make public both their list prices and the prices they negotiate with payers.