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Benefits of Medicaid Expansion for Hospitalists
March 12, 2016
By January 2016, 31 states and the District of Columbia had embraced the Medicaid expansion brought to bear by the Affordable Care Act.
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Preventing Patient Falls
March 11, 2016
Patient falls are a national issue, creating costs for every player in the healthcare system.
“Patient falls negatively impact patient outcomes, hospital costs, and costs for insurance and health systems,” says Jennifer Hefner, PhD, MPH, lead author of “A Falls Wheel in a Large Academic Medical C
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HM16 Session Analysis: Maximizing Collaboration With PAs & NPs: Rules, Realities, Reimbursement
- Amanda Trask, MBA, MHA;
- Cmpe, SFHM;
- Fache
March 9, 2016
Presenter: Tricia Marriott, PA-C, MPAS, MJ Health Law
Summary: Ms. Marriott brought humor to a detailed #HospMed16 presentation on the rules of reimbursement and Medicare requirements for physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs).
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CMS Introduces Billing Code for Hospitalists: What You Need to Know
March 4, 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the approval of a dedicated specialty billing code for hospitalists that will soon be ready for official use.
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Key Elements of Critical Care
February 29, 2016
Code 99291 is used for critical care, evaluation, and management of the critically ill or critically injured patient, first 30–74 minutes.1 It is to be reported only once per day per physician or group member of the same specialty.
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Medicare Patient Outcomes of Inpatient Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Varies Among Hospitals
- (Reuters Health);
- Anne Harding
February 24, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Outcomes of inpatient laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Medicare patients vary widely among hospitals, and most adverse outcomes occur well after patients have been discharged, new findings show.
While the overall adverse outcome rate was 20.7%, risk-adjusted adverse out
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Medicaid Coverage Differs in Many States Opposed to Medicare
- (Reuters Health);
- Lisa Rapaport
February 22, 2016
(Reuters Health) - Medicaid, the U.S.
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Practice Expanding: The Rising Trend in Hospitalist Co-Management
February 4, 2016
As the practice of medicine continues to transition to performance-based payment systems, the number of mergers of hospitalists and specialists has surged.
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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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Health IT Chief, Hospital Medicine ‘Godfather’ Headline SHM Annual Meeting Keynotes
January 23, 2016
Health information technology (IT) will take center stage early and often at this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, acting assistant secretary for health in the U.S.