News
Who are the ‘high-need, high-cost’ patients?
July 30, 2018
Significant predictors included Medicare or Medicaid insurance, lower income, first hospitalization in a large rural hospital, high comorbidity burden, obesity, and hospitalizations for infections.
News
CMS proposes site-neutral payments for hospital outpatient setting
July 26, 2018
Site-neutral payments could save the government – and patients – money on every visit.
News
CMS considers expanding telemedicine payments
July 17, 2018
The proposed rule would pay doctors for an expanded number of telemedicine services and add payment for virtual check-ins by phone or other technologies.
News
Benefits, drawbacks when hospitalists expand roles
July 13, 2018
Not all role expansion in hospital medicine is good role expansion, experts say.
News
The rapidly disappearing community pediatric inpatient unit
July 12, 2018
Across the U.S., pediatric inpatient units in community hospitals have failed to even flirt with breaking even.
News
Health care, technology, and the future
June 25, 2018
How do we improve the efficiencies of health service delivery while preserving the fundamental human qualities?
News
Do free meals to physicians affect opioid prescribing?
June 19, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Physicians who received 1 free meal made about 150 opioid claims; those who received more than 10 made more than 700 claims.
News
Giving hospitalists a larger clinical footprint
June 14, 2018
Given current hospitalist work structures, who can possibly think about the “whole patient”?
Opinion
The work schedule that prevents burnout
June 12, 2018
There is lots of value in thinking carefully about your group’s work schedule and making adjustments where needed.
News
A U.S. model for Italian hospitals?
June 7, 2018
Hospital-based physicians in Italy are looking with great interest at the American hospitalist model.