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Which Hospitalist Should Bill for Inpatient Stays with Multiple Providers?
November 4, 2015
[caption id="attachment_8354" align="alignleft" width="100"] amane kaneko[/caption] During a facility stay, a patient could be attended to by more than one hospitalist.
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Hospitalist Consults on Psychiatric Patients Concern Nurses
June 1, 2015
I am a psychiatric nurse and am concerned about the new group of hospitalists who are taking over all the new ED patients: Are signing off to the nursing staff or in the electronic health record (EHR); they do not speak with the attending psychiatrist; Are not monitoring their own medications,
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Should Unaffiliated Physicians Have Infusion Privileges?
March 1, 2014
Billing requirements, guidelines for alternate site infusion therapy
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What To Do When the Hospitalist Group Leader Refuses to See Patients
December 2, 2013
Schedules that allow physician leaders time for administrative, clinical duties can balance workload for hospital medicine groups
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Fellowships Available to Family Physicians Considering Hospital Medicine Career
November 1, 2013
Clinical principles taught in an HM fellowship are applicable to practicing outpatient adult medicine
