Public Policy
Quality
Policy Changes Hospitalists May See in 2016
The year 2015 brought the repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) and new rules for advanced care planning reimbursement.
Public Policy
Risk Adjusting Readmissions: Coming Soon?
Nearly three-quarters of hospitals will be receiving penalties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2016 for excess...
Public Policy
Revolutionizing Quality Improvement in Hospital Medicine
As the senior physician advisor to SHM’s Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement, Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, bridges the gap between clinical...
Public Policy
Medicare’s Readmission Reduction Program Cuts $420M to U.S. Hospitals This Year
It’s that time of year again … the time when hospitals around the country are being notified of their 30-day readmission penalties from the...
Public Policy
CMS Releases Updated Two-Midnight Rule for 2016
On November 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is scheduled to publish its final OPPS rule for 2016. One of the biggest...
Public Policy
Hospitalists Support Medicare’s Plan to Reimburse Advance Care Planning
[caption id="attachment_11434" align="alignright" width="295"] SHM has joined 65 medical specialty and professional societies in signing a letter...
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Physicians Critical of Proposed Changes to Medicare's Two-Midnight Rule
[caption id="attachment_11176" align="alignright" width="300"] Hospitalist Ann Sheehy, MD, (left) meets with legislators after testifying in...
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Medicare Rule May Needlessly Extend Hospital Stay
(Reuters Health) - A decades old Medicare rule requiring a three-day hospital stay before patients can transfer to skilled nursing facilities may...
Public Policy
New Bill Hopes to Increase Residency Medicare Slots after Two Previous Bills Failed
The new version again seeks to increase Medicare residency slots by 15,000 over five years, while attempting to identify physician shortage...
News
Institute of Medicine Report Prompts Debate Over Graduate Medical Education Funding, Oversight
Ever since 1997, when the federal Balanced Budget Act froze Medicare’s overall funding for graduate medical education, debates have flared...