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How will SNF readmissions penalties affect hospitalists?
December 19, 2017
Skilled nursing facilities will soon be penalized up to 2% of their Medicare reimbursement for posting higher-than-average rates of hospital readmissions.
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Hospitals will feel the squeeze of DSH payment changes
December 18, 2017
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has altered the formula previously used to determine disproportionate share payments, and there will be fallout for hospitals.
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Reducing outpatient medication costs
December 13, 2017
Hospitalists used data to create a new algorithm-based tool to further reduce prescription cost.
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Using “design thinking” to improve health care
December 12, 2017
With design thinking, the innovations come from those who actually work in health care spaces.
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Consider ‘impactibility’ to prevent hospital readmissions
December 11, 2017
Predictive models and clinicians together might produce more effective decisions than either does alone.
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New curriculum teaches value-based health care
December 8, 2017
It is critical that hospitalists understand and embrace the concepts of value, and are able to deliver upon these ideals.
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ABIM to allow do-overs for all subspecialties with Knowledge Check-In
December 6, 2017
The option had been available only for internal medicine and nephrology.
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Swarm and suspicion leadership
December 4, 2017
Leaders influence the tone and tenor of their own group’s interactions as well as interactions between different working groups.
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How hospitalists can focus on health equity
November 21, 2017
Experts say hospitals and hospitalists must focus on health disparities to address the multitude of chronic medical conditions they treat.
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Safety-net hospitals would be hurt by hospital-wide 30-day readmission penalties
November 19, 2017
Considering all readmissions within 30 days of discharge in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program would modestly increase the number of hospitals eligible for penalties and would have a bigger impact on safety-net hospitals, based on a study of two years of Medicare claims data from 3,443 ...
