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Business Updates for the Hospitalist: The Top Business Articles of 2024 that Will Change the Way You Lead, Do Your Job, and Practice Medicine
July 1, 2025
In front of a standing-room-only crowd at this year’s SHM Converge, Christopher Russo, MD, MBA, CPE, FAAP, medical director for quality and innovation and director of pediatrics at WellSpan Health...
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The Case for Hospitalists’ Involvement in Hospital Contract Negotiations
June 24, 2025
Physician advisors and hospitalists bring indispensable value to contract negotiations between hospital systems and payers. Traditionally, contracting has been managed primarily by finance and...
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Carrying On the Timeless Mission of Medicine
June 13, 2025
It’s easy to think of the times we live in as unprecedented—for each of us, it is. Yet, as we all know, history repeats itself, and our experiences are usually not quite as unprecedented as we...
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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...