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New Bill Hopes to Increase Residency Medicare Slots after Two Previous Bills Failed
July 29, 2015
The new version again seeks to increase Medicare residency slots by 15,000 over five years, while attempting to identify physician shortage specialties and increase the workforce diversity. Two federal bills introduced in 2013, the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act and the Training Tomorr
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Institute of Medicine Report Prompts Debate Over Graduate Medical Education Funding, Oversight
July 29, 2015
Ever since 1997, when the federal Balanced Budget Act froze Medicare’s overall funding for graduate medical education, debates have flared regularly over whether and how the U.S.
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Experts Urge Extension to Medicaid’s Parity Program
July 29, 2015
On the last day of 2014, a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that increased payments to some physicians providing primary care services to the country’s poorest patients expired.
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Hospitalist’s Study Cited in Federal Recovery Audit Legislation Passed by Senate
July 29, 2015
Society of Hospital Medicine members have a real impact. [caption id="attachment_10802" align="alignleft" width="66"] Dr. Sheehy[/caption] A paper published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine in April by Ann Sheehy, MD, MS, and colleagues was recently cited in Sen.
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CMS Proposes Changes to Two-Midnight Rule
July 14, 2015
On July 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed changes to its controversial two-midnight rule.
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Medicare Initiatives Improve Hospital Care, Patient Safety
July 6, 2015
[caption id="attachment_10401" align="alignright" width="291"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] As a hospitalist myself, I have seen firsthand the need for a healthcare system that provides better care, spends dollars more wisely, and keeps people healthier.
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Medicare Rankings Favor Small, For-Profit Hospitals
July 6, 2015
[caption id="attachment_10345" align="alignright" width="256"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] In April, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly revealed for the first time which hospitals achieved five stars and which had room for improvement based on patient exper
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SGR Repeal: What It Means for Hospitalists
July 6, 2015
On April 16, President Obama signed into law a bipartisan, bicameral piece of legislation that not only fully repealed the sustainable growth rate (SGR) but also permanently eliminated the recurring threat of physician payment cuts in Medicare. Along with the SGR repeal, the Medicare Access and C
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LISTEN NOW: UCSF’s Christopher Moriates, MD, discusses waste-reduction efforts in hospitals
June 9, 2015
CHRISTOPHER MORIATES, MD, assistant clinical professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, talks about the change in focus and priorities needed for medicine to make progress in waste-reduction efforts. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp
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Medicare Develops Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model
May 5, 2015
ACO aims to provide more efficient, less costly coordinated care for patients
