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The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Primer
July 3, 2012
The main components of the PCMH and how they’ve been implemented in real practice
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Rural Hospitalist Practice: First Among Equals
July 3, 2012
Hospitalists can use flexibility and creativity to design HM programs that meet the unique needs of small or rural hospitals.
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Rural Healthcare Facts
July 3, 2012
The obstacles faced by healthcare providers and patients in rural areas are vastly different than those in urban areas.
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Evaluating a Hospitalist: A New Way of Measurement
July 3, 2012
How do hospitalist-physician professionalism and shift work co-exist? How this question is answered is going to impact quality of care, recruitment, and staff satisfaction.
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Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Backs Anti-SGR Legislation
June 13, 2012
Urges hospitalists to support bill that would push for new Medicare physician payment models
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More in the Affordable Care Act than the Mandate
May 25, 2012
The dual purpose of the ACA is patient protection and cost control.
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Survey Insights: HM’s Financial Support Requirement
May 25, 2012
HM groups becoming more sophisticated about how they account for the costs of their hospitalist programs.
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HIT Continues Spread Across Health Networks
May 25, 2012
The proportion of U.S. hospitals using health information technology has doubled in the past two years.
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Efficacy, Diagnoses, Frequency Play Parts in Coverage Limitations
May 25, 2012
Medicare may only pay for items and services that are “reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of illness or injury or to improve the functioning of a malformed body member,” unless there is another statutory authorization for payment.
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The Future of Hospital Medicine
- Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM
May 25, 2012
The biggest challenge hospitalists face is fulfillment of our promise.