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Making Heads or Tails of the New Hospital Coding and Billing Guidelines
November 1, 2023
Dr. Sanders Presenters: Heather Collette, MD, Jessica Ford-Davis, DO, Andrea Hadley, MD, and Jack Percelay, MD This interactive, case-based PHM 2023 presentation discussed the new pediatric...
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Protecting, Buying, and Investing: Financial Well-being for the Pediatrician
November 1, 2023
Dr. Abd-Rabu Presenter: Shreepada Tripathy, MD, MBA, MS-SA, FAAP, FHM Transitioning from medical residency to an attending role is filled with clinical and financial challenges. This PHM 2023...
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Does Place of Service Matter? Using Higher Level-of-care Billing Codes
November 1, 2023
Dr. Baucher Presenters: Christine Mikesell, MD, Yiling Katharine Chang, MD, and Maria Skoczylas, MD The 2023 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services changes to inpatient evaluation and...
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Coding Corner: HF and Physician Underbilling—Two Common Conditions
October 2, 2023
Coding Corner, a new section that will appear periodically in The Hospitalist, features common coding and/or billing issues hospitalists regularly face. If you have suggestions for upcoming coding...
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Immigrant Hospitalists Share Struggles and Discuss Paths to Progress
October 2, 2023
Harkesh Arora, MD, a hospitalist at Lovelace Medical Group in Albuquerque, N.M., said she has grown sad and frustrated by her long—and, so far, futile—effort to obtain an EB-1A, an...
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SHM’s 2023 State of Hospital Medicine Report Includes New Data
August 10, 2023
SHM’s 2023 State of Hospital Medicine (SoHM) Report contains the first data on hospital medicine groups since before the COVID-19 pandemic started in early 2020. SHM paused the normal two-year...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2022
July 5, 2023
In 2022, a New York Times headline declared, “Saving kids is bad business in America.”1 Pediatric hospitalists were faced with an unprecedented winter surge due to the “tripledemic” of...
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High-Value Care/Things We Do For No Reason
July 5, 2023
In this impactful session, Dr. Lee defined value as the sum of quality of care, equity, patient outcome, and experience divided by costs of care and nonfinancial risks and harms. High-value care...
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Strategies for Dysfunctional Teams and Groups
July 5, 2023
Drs. Russo and Boer began by outlining the differences between high-performing and dysfunctional teams. High-performing teams are not afraid of face-to-face communication, authentically give and...
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Standardizing the Recruitment Process for Hospitalist Programs
July 5, 2023
This workshop discussed ideas to standardize the recruitment process, ask more informative interview questions, and minimize unconscious bias to create a diverse hospitalist group. The audience was...