News
Contracts Need to Ensure Physicians are Free Agents
October 1, 2012
How to avoid restrictive employment agreements that prevent moonlighting, volunteering or appearing as an expert witness outside your clinical practice work.
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Patient Satisfaction Critical to Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program
- Christopher Guadagnino, PhD
October 1, 2012
Although patients' happiness is hard to gauge, 30% of the federal program's financial incentive is based upon how well hospitals score on patient satisfaction surveys
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Hospital Readmissions Penalties Start Now
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
October 1, 2012
Hospitals must meet October 1st deadline for complying with the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hospital Readmission Reduction Program or risk financial penalties
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Managing the Customer Care Experience in Hospital Care
- Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM
October 1, 2012
What healthcare can learn from Jiffy Lube and Cheesecake Factory
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Navigating Rapid Changes in Healthcare Made Easy
October 1, 2012
Direction and motivation are key to overcoming healthcare's obstacles
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Report: Hospitalists Can Trim Wasteful Healthcare Spending
September 20, 2012
Hospitalists at “nexus” of needed systemwide improvements, author says
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News
As Hospitalists Cement their Worth, Compensation Continues Upward Climb
August 29, 2012
Median compensation for adult hospitalists rose 6% in 2011, while productivity remained nearly static, according to the Medical Group Management Association’s Physician Compensation and Production Survey.
News
Prevention of Intravascular, Catheter-Related Infections
- Jeffrey M. Rohde, MD;
- Sarah E. Hartley, MD
August 29, 2012
Each year in the ICU alone, 80,000 catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) occur.
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News
Shaun Frost: High-Value Healthcare
August 29, 2012
Applying accountability principles to improve our care-delivery system
News
Response: Properly Coding an Uncertain Diagnosis
August 28, 2012
Confusion arises because there are two mechanisms for reporting facility-based claims