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Naturalized Citizens and Noncitizen Immigrant Healthcare Workers are Important Members of the Workforce
June 2, 2025
Clinical question: How do the Trump administration’s plans for deporting undocumented immigrants and some individuals with temporary protected status impact the already strained healthcare...
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Don’t Throw Away Your Shot: Negotiations
June 2, 2025
Many of us did not go into medicine to negotiate, and so feel uncomfortable with negotiations. However, we negotiate more often in our day-to-day lives than we realize (those with children definitely...
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Coding Corner: Prolonged Services Billing
May 1, 2025
A 66-year-old man with a history of hypertension and stage 4 chronic kidney disease was admitted to the hospital for acute pulmonary embolism and started on a heparin drip. It is day two of his...
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Non-Medical Consequences: The 6th Element of Informed Consent
May 1, 2025
Informed consent is critical to the daily practice of medicine. Conversations about the risks and benefits of treatment options are both a legal requirement and an ethical duty. However, another...
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The Committee That Could: A Model for Rapid Service Structure Change
May 1, 2025
How We Did It is a new column that aims to highlight how individual hospitalist programs have successfully implemented innovations in medical programs, educational programs, wellness initiatives, or...
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Supply Chain Stewardship
May 1, 2025
Healthcare supply chain disruptions have emerged as a major challenge nationwide, fundamentally reshaping clinical practice and patient-care delivery within hospitals. As clinicians, we increasingly...
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What Hospitalists Should Know About ICE Visits
April 18, 2025
In the course of a hectic day with a huge patient load, the last thing a hospitalist might expect to handle is a visit from immigration officials demanding access to a patient the federal government...
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Trends in Benefits for Hospitalists, and How They Help With Recruitment and Retention
April 1, 2025
Every incentive counts when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent. In particular, today’s hospitalists view funding for continuing medical education (CME) and getting paid time off (PTO)...
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Reducing Avoidable Readmissions is an Important Focus for Hospitalists
April 1, 2025
Now in its 13th year, Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) continues to incentivize hospitals to do a better job of coordinating the care of patients they are discharging to...
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Coding Corner: Talk the Talk, Bill the Bill: Navigating Advance Care Discussion Billing
January 1, 2025
A 75-year-old woman with a previous medical history of high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, stage 4 chronic kidney disease, and lung cancer was admitted to the hospital with chest pain and...