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How High Can Your Support Payments Go?
July 1, 2011
As the healthcare system attempts to cut costs, financial support to HM groups continues decades-long surge.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Hospitalists discuss the time-honored tradition of hospital payments to HM groups
July 1, 2011
Troy Ahlstrom, MD, SFHM, CFO of Hospitalists of Northern Michigan, a hospitalist-owned and -managed group based in Traverse City, and John Laverty, DHA, vice president of hospital-based physicians at HCA Physician Services in Nashville, Tenn., discuss hospital payments to HM programs
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Subsidy or Payment?
July 1, 2011
The story of hospitalist funding in six questions
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Experts explain how hospitalists can thrive in a new era of payment reform
May 1, 2011
Listen to hospitalist Patrick Torcson and VHA Inc. CMO Trent Haywood discuss how HM can thrive in the value-based purchasing program
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Shared/Split Service
January 2, 2011
Understanding qualified services is first step to reimbursement
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Payment Reform Proposals Take Shape
November 17, 2010
Bundling episodes might not solve the problem; new ideas to fairly divide payment emerge
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Band-Aids Won’t Fix Medicare Payment Problems
July 8, 2010
Hospitalist leaders say Congress must solve SGR conundrum
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Congress Gets Defensive with Medicare Payments
December 23, 2009
Senate passes amendment to delay 21% cut in reimbursements to physicians
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Quality Reporting Incentive Payments Surge
December 9, 2009
Hospitalists can take advantage of Medicare pay-for-reporting program
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Payment Purgatory
October 1, 2009
Medicare cuts unlikely, but consult and reporting changes on the horizon