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Medicare Payments to Physicians Rise in 2013
June 19, 2015
Medicare, the government-run health insurance program for elderly and disabled Americans, paid physicians $90 billion in 2013, up 17% from $77 billion in 2012, U.S.
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Medicare Nonpayment for Hospital-Acquired Conditions May Have Reduced Infection Rates
- Cedars-Sinai;
- Inpatient Specialty Program;
- Los Angeles;
- William J. Collins, MD
June 8, 2015
Clinical question: What was the effect of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) nonpayment for hospital-acquired conditions?
Background: In 2008, CMS implemented the Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) initiative, denying incremental payment to hospitals for complications of hospit
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Opinion
Bundled Payment and Hospital Medicine, Pt. 2
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
June 8, 2015
Editor’s note: Second in a two-part series examining bundled payments and hospital medicine. In full disclosure, Dr.
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$167 billion: hospital payments forfeited for choosing not to expand Medicaid
December 3, 2014
$167 billion: Amount of federal Medicaid reimbursement payments that hospitals will forego between 2013 and 2022 in states that have opted not to expand their state programs under the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
For every $1 a state spends on expanding Medicaid, $13.41 in federal funding flows into
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CMS Puts Hospitalists in Holding Pattern Regarding Physician Payment Transparency
March 6, 2014
Medicare to weigh requests for reimbursement data on case-by-case basis
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How Will New Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier Affect Medicare Reimbursements?
March 1, 2014
Program will have hospitalists identify appropriate metrics, patient attribution
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Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier To Make Changes for Hospitalists
March 1, 2014
Shift in reimbursement toward quality of care expected to encourage comparison of costs charged by physicians, other hospital medicine groups to same Medicare patients
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Hospitalist Pay Shifts from Volume to Value with Global Payment System
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
March 1, 2014
How do we reward physicians for seeing more patients under a global payment system that encourages physicians and hospitals to do less?
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Opinion
Bundled-Payment Program Basics
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
August 2, 2013
Hospitalists’ roles and financial stake in health-care reimbursement model of accountable care organizations
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Affordable Care Act Provides Two-Year Increase in Medicaid Payments for Primary-Care Services
March 1, 2013
Medicaid-to-Medicare parity regulation will increase total revenue for some hospitalist groups