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News
Medicare’s two-midnight rule
- Charles Locke, MD;
- Edward Hu, MD
February 22, 2019
The distinction between hospitalization as inpatient versus outpatient status can affect payment.
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A novel approach to MIPS quality reporting for facility-based providers
- Josh Boswell;
- Joshua Lapps
February 20, 2019
Facility-based measurement represents a massive philosophical and practical shift in CMS measure reporting.
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An unplanned career
- MHM;
- Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc
February 13, 2019
Dr. Patrick Conway says hospitalists have been primary drivers in the shift to value-based care.
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Public insurance income limits and hospitalizations for low-income children
February 6, 2019
If public insurance eligibility thresholds are decreased, many pediatric hospitalizations would become ineligible for coverage.
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Pediatric hospitalist and researcher: Dr. Samir Shah
January 29, 2019
Dr. Shah is the first pediatric hospitalist to serve as editor in chief of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
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The state of hospital medicine in 2018
January 8, 2019
Slow growth in compensation, more funds for hospital support, but productivity remains flat.
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Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program may be doing more harm than good
January 4, 2019
Thirty-day postdischarge mortality went up after the program for some, down for others.
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Ingredients for effective team-based care
- Christopher Frost, MD, SFHM
December 19, 2018
In health care, we are undergoing a period of “punctuation.”
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ONC releases draft strategy on reducing EHR burden
December 5, 2018
Comments are sought to help drive direction of reforms.
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Opinion
CMS modifies the inpatient admission order requirement, or did it?
- Charles Locke, MD;
- Edward Hu, MD
November 15, 2018
Medicare auditors have been given discretion to overlook an inpatient order flaw, but providers have not.