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Medicare’s Managed Care Option Trades Off With Patient Preferences
July 14, 2016
CHICAGO - Medicare enrollees are moving in greater numbers than ever to the program's managed care option as a way to save money.
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MACRA Rule Offers Little Clarity for Hospitalists
July 2, 2016
Last year, Congress put an end to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), which had become a yearly battle fought on behalf of and by physicians to prevent significant last-minute cuts to Medicare reimbursement.
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Reducing Drug Expenditure with Computerized Alerts
June 26, 2016
Hospitalists face ever-increasing pressure to reduce drug expenditures without compromising the quality of care provided to patients, and as a consequence, are creating new ways to approach the issue.
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Standardized Clinical Pathways’ Effects on Outcomes
- Samuel C. Stubblefield, MD
June 17, 2016
Clinical question: What are the effects of implementing standardized clinical pathways on length of stay, cost, readmissions, and patient quality of life?
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Hospitals Not Utilizing More Observation Services to Avoid Readmission Penalties: Study
June 7, 2016
Concern that the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has led to more observation stays in an effort by hospitals to avoid readmission penalties can be put to rest.
A study published in late February in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that while readmission rates dropped drama
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New Community-Based Palliative Care Certification to Launch
May 22, 2016
The industry’s first certification for home health and hospices that provide top-caliber community-based palliative care services in the patient’s place of residence is being launched by The Joint Commission.
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Prevalence, Characteristics of Physicians Prone to Malpractice Claims
- Agnes Libot, MD;
- Amy Kim, MD;
- Anar Mashruwala, MD, FACP;
- Division OF;
- Padmavathy Parthasarathy, MD;
- Sameer Qazi, MD;
- Shirin A. Poonja, DO
May 20, 2016
Clinical question: Do claim-prone physicians account for a substantial share of all paid malpractice claims?
Background: Many studies have compared physicians who have multiple malpractice claims against them with colleagues who have few or no claims against them and have identified systemic diff
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Hospitalist Administrator Amanda Trask, MBA, MHA, Implements SHM Recommendations at Catholic Health Initiatives
May 19, 2016
As the national vice president of the hospital medicine service line at Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) in Englewood, Colo., Amanda Trask, MBA, MHA, FACHE, CMPE, SFHM, faces many challenges daily surrounding strategy and engagement of CHI’s hospital medicine group.
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SHM Seats Its First Non-Physician Board Member
May 9, 2016
New Society of Hospital Medicine board member Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM, isn’t on the board because she’s a nurse practitioner (NP).
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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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