News
Affordable Care Act (ACA) Provision Carries Pay Raise for Some Hospitalists
April 2, 2013
Hospitalists who care for Medicaid patients will see a pay increase in 2013 and 2014 under ACA payment parity rules
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Larry Wellikson: Exceptional Hospitalists Bring Positive Change to Health Care Industry
April 2, 2013
Boundless talent, energy, and commitment characterize hospital medicine's top leaders and their quest for better health care
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Front-Line Hospitalists Fight Against Health Care-Associated Infections (HAIs)
April 2, 2013
Reducing in-patient rates of C. diff, MRSA, and other hospital-acquired infections essential to prevent providers from losing millions in Medicare payments
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Bob Wachter Puts Forward Spin on Patient Safety, Quality of Care at HM13
April 1, 2013
The eponymous hospital medicine convention speaker plans to reaffirm hospitalists’ commitment to deliver safe, high-quality patient care in his address at SHM’s annual meeting in May
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UCLA Exec: Patient-Centered Approach Essential to Quality of Hospital Care
April 1, 2013
A national healthcare expert will implore hospitalists to focus first on healing patients in his keynote address at SHM’s annual meeting, HM13
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Medicare CMO Encourages Hospitalists to Become Experts in Managing Quality Patient Care
April 1, 2013
A top official at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will deliver a keynote speech urging hospitalists to step up their focus on patient-centered outcomes at SHM's annual meeting, HM13
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News
Hospitalists Gear Up to Lobby Congress on Health Care Policy
April 1, 2013
SHM's annual trek to meet with Capitol Hill legislators on May 16 is expected to draw hundreds of hospitalists
News
Team Hospitalist Recommends Nine Don’t-Miss Sessions at HM13
April 1, 2013
Presentations about anticoagulants, physician value-based purchasing (VBP), and patient communications among hospitalists' top picks at SHM annual meeting
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Two Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Share Their Strategies for Success
April 1, 2013
Pairing with a multispecialty private-practice group and using nurse practitioners for at-home patient visits are tactics used by successful ACOs
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Gain Popularity with Physicians in Wake of Added Incentives, Revised Federal Rules
April 1, 2013
Health care providers cautiously optimistic that ACO’s shared responsibility model can cure some industry ills
