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SHM Supports Clarification to Observational Status Loophole for Medicare Patients
May 2, 2013
Change would enable beneficiaries to qualify for Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility care after leaving the hospital
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SHM To Award First Certificates of Leadership at HM13
May 2, 2013
Q&A with Thomas McIlraith, MD, SFHM, who will accept one of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s first Certificate of Leadership awards
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Sunshine Rule Requires Physicians to Report Gifts from Drug, Medical Device Companies
May 2, 2013
Exemption will allow indirect payments to speakers at CME classes or courses
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‘Systems,’ Not ‘Points,’ Is Correct Terminology for ROS Statements
May 2, 2013
"The Billing and Coding Bandwagon" article in the May 2011 issue of The Hospitalist should have noted that "systems" is the correct term to use in an ROS statement
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Lack of Transparency Plagues U.S. Health Care System
May 1, 2013
Health care reform efforts have done little to change the price or the cost of care, or make them transparent
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Documentation, CMS-Approved Language Key to Getting Paid for Hospitalist Teaching Services
May 1, 2013
The teaching physician is paid for their personal and medically necessary service in providing patient care
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Thirty-Day Hospital Readmissions Drop in 2012, CMS Reports
May 1, 2013
Newly implemented Medicare penalties source of lower readmission rates
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Rival Hospitalists Can Bring Havoc, or Healthy Competition to Hospitals
May 1, 2013
Encouraging competing hospital medicine groups to work together amicably under one roof can be a challenge, say hospital executives
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Bill Seeks to Enhance Patient Access to Post-Hospital Benefit
May 1, 2013
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act allows patients to utilize institutional skilled nursing care
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Drive Change in an ACO
April 30, 2013
Change your mindset and consider four key strategies
