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New Hospitalist Billing Code Should Benefit Hospitalists, Patients
May 5, 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that within the year hospitalists will be assigned their own specialty designation code.
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MACRA Provides New Direction for U.S. Healthcare
- Lauren Doctoroff, MD, FHM;
- Suparna Dutta, MD, MPH
March 14, 2016
Last year, Congress passed legislation to permanently eliminate the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, created in 1997 and designed to hold Medicare Part B or outpatient spending under control.
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Making Sense of Hospitalists and Quality Reporting Programs
January 28, 2016
The diversity of hospitalist practice—from the variety of settings (such as inpatient acute, observation, post-discharge clinics, and post-acute-care facilities) to the differences in relationships with their facilities—is a strength of the specialty.
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Changes to Healthcare that Hospitalists Should Expect in 2016
December 24, 2015
On the heels of last year’s repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, 2016 promises to be a year of significant changes for the healthcare system.
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The Three-Year Plan
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
July 29, 2015
Although 2019 may seem like a long way away, it isn’t too soon to start thinking about and preparing for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) or its (seemingly preferable) alternative, participation in an alternative payment model (APM) such as an ACO, a medical home, or a bundled payment
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SGR Repeal: What It Means for Hospitalists
July 6, 2015
On April 16, President Obama signed into law a bipartisan, bicameral piece of legislation that not only fully repealed the sustainable growth rate (SGR) but also permanently eliminated the recurring threat of physician payment cuts in Medicare.
Along with the SGR repeal, the Medicare Access and C
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What the SGR Repeal Means for Hospitalists
- Nancy K. Zeitoun, MD, FHM
April 22, 2015
The long awaited permanent repeal of the poorly designed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) came just in time to avert the 21.2% Medicare physician payment cut that would have taken effect on April 1st, 2015.
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Implementing Physician Value-Based Purchasing in Your Practice: HM15 Session Analysis
April 9, 2015
HM15 Session: Putting Your Nickel Down: The What, Why, and How of Implementing Physician Value-Based Purchasing in Your Practice
Presenters: Stephen Besch, Simone Karp RPh, Patrick Torcson MD MMM SFHM, Gregory Seymann MD SFHM
Summation: HHS has set a goal of tying increasing percentages of Med
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Quality Initiatives Earn Low Marks
July 2, 2014
Most think QI measures don't improve inpatient care: online survey by The Hospitalist
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Modify Physician Quality Reporting System
March 1, 2014
Qualified clinical data registries added as reporting method to encourage hospitalist participation