Scott Sears, MD, chief clinical officer for Sound Physicians in Tacoma, Wash., discusses why patients without health insurance put hospitalists in a difficult situation. He says hospitalists face cost pressures to discharge patients—particularly because hospitals don’t get fully reimbursed to provide care to uninsured patients and, consequently, end up subsidizing them. Meanwhile, there are incentives to meet certain quality measures, coupled with a lack of providers.
In 2022, a New York Times headline declared, “Saving kids is bad business in America.”1 Pediatric hospitalists were faced with an unprecedented winter surge due to the “tripledemic” of...
The agency will be giving more flexibility to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to provide hospital-level care.
As PAC expands, hospital medicine’s role – and leadership – will be key.
Nearly three-quarters of hospitals will be receiving penalties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2016 for excess readmissions, having failed to prevent enough patients from returning to the hospital 30 days post-discharge.
