The Hospitalist - An Official Publication of Society of Hospital Medicine

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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...

  • 2025 Masters in Hospital Medicine

    May 1, 2025

    The Society of Hospital Medicine inducted four new Masters in Hospital Medicine (MHM) at SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas. This honor was introduced by SHM in 2010 to acknowledge hospitalists who have...

  • JHM’s Progress Notes

    May 1, 2025

    Hospitalists would tend to agree that it’s great that medical journals are published every month to provide clinicians and healthcare practitioners with new research findings and perspectives that...

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  • What’s New in The Hospitalist

    May 1, 2025

    The Hospitalist aims to provide articles on key issues and trends in hospital medicine, continually assessing how to deliver engaging, relevant, and useful content. Popular clinical columns include...

  • 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...

  • A Face to Face

    February 11, 2025

    In late 2022, I began developing notable facial discoloration that was spreading around my temples, then periorbitally, and eventually down my cheeks. After two rounds of biopsies, it was eventually...

  • 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...

  • SIG Spotlight: Research

    May 1, 2025

    Being the newest anything can be both a blessing and a curse. For SHM’s Research Special Interest Group, which just formed in October 2024, the positives of being so new are that the group is...

  • Chapter Spotlight: NC Triangle

    May 1, 2025

    Look, anything good enough for the iconic character of Crash Davis in the movie Bull Durham is good enough for hospital medicine. At least, so says the attendance of the Durham Bulls social event...

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From SHM

  • Evaluation and Management Principles for Hospitalists

    Coding and reimbursement are both foundational concepts necessary for any hospitalist. SHM’s Evaluation & Management Principles for Hospitalists is the only course on E/M coding designed specifically for hospitalists. It empowers you to document and code accurately and completely so you’re appropriately reimbursed for the work you do. Check out this course to learn the basics of common E/M codes for hospitalists and to understand principles for accurate and complete documentation. Learn from a coder and a hospitalist, both of them drawing on their extensive knowledge and experience in documentation, coding, billing rules, and best practices.

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