Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Hospitalists Must Grin and Bear the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Program
November 2, 2012
Developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) program is as much about documentation as it is about providing good care
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Hospital Readmissions Penalties Start Now
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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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Inflexible, Big-Box EHRs Endanger the QI Movement
August 29, 2012
The challenges current EHRs present to QI efforts and what features EHRs need to incorporate to better serve the needs of patients and clinicians
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Spotlight on Medical Necessity
July 31, 2012
Patients, hospitalists caught in crosshairs of the observation status conundrum.
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Staying … and Paying
July 3, 2012
CMS' chief medical officer sheds some light on confusing and aggravating Medicare issue.
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News
Win Whitcomb: A New Quality Paradigm
May 25, 2012
Cost Is the New Quality; Waste Is the New Cost
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News
Win Whitcomb: Hospitalists, PCPs, and Population Health
April 26, 2012
Game on with SHM’s Complex Medically Ill Project
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News
WIN WHITCOMB: CMS Core Measures Program a Win-Win for Hospitalists
March 31, 2012
Looking back, many of us saw the huge opportunity created by the CMS core measures a decade ago. A good number of core measures recently have been retired or suspended.
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Career Satisfaction Toolkit
December 1, 2005
An interim report from the SHM Career Satisfaction Task Force
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Physician Pay-for-Performance Comes to the Hospital
July 1, 2005
In January 2004, the Mercy Inpatient Medicine Service embarked on a quality-based incentive program, or “pay-for-performance.” This was spurred on by Blue Cross of Massachusetts, which contracted with all hospitals in the state to receive a substantial financial bonus for agreed-upon qua
