News
Due Diligence: Denials
May 1, 2011
Claim rejection often due to mismatched or missing information
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Opinion
The To-Don’t List, Part 2
May 1, 2011
HM groups should eliminate “extra” shifts, standard shift duration
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News
CMS Requires “In-Person Encounter” to Initiate Home Health Services
May 1, 2011
The health reform law changes paperwork requirements; providers can no longer use discharge plans or transfer forms as evidence of “certification” of need for home health services
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News
The Comanagement Conundrum
April 1, 2011
Careful negotiation, clear agreement essential to hospitalists in shared-service situations
News
Letters to the Editor
April 1, 2011
Pennsylvania group director sounds the call for hospitalist emancipation
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to HM experts discuss comanagement opportunities
April 1, 2011
Listen to excerpts of our interviews with comanagement experts Sylvia McKean, Bob Wachter, Eric Siegal and more
News
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Comanagement Business Models
April 1, 2011
HM should think more broadly about patient need
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News
Q&A with Hospitalist Administrator Amit Prachand
April 1, 2011
Amit Prachand, MEng Division Administrator, Hospital Medicine Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago Question: What motivated you to join SHM’s Administrators Task Force (ATF)? A: I wanted to be able to directly interface with the comm
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Q&A with Hospitalist Administrator Kristi Gylten
April 1, 2011
Kristi Gylten, MBA Director, Hospitalist Service, Rapid City (S.D.) Regional Hospital Question: What motivated you to join the Administrators Task Force (ATF)? Answer: I wanted to have the opportunity to meet and network with my peers, and to be a part of developing resources and a place “on t
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Opinion
The To-Don’t List
April 1, 2011
Your HM practice would be better off without these
