News
Study calls higher surgery costs at NCI centers into question
September 1, 2021
When is the higher cost of cancer surgery at NCI centers worth it?
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Opinion
Hospitalists and medical malpractice
- Adam C. Schaffer, MD, MPH
August 4, 2021
Contrary to the trends for nearly all other physician specialties, the malpractice claims rates of hospitalists are not downtrending.
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Hotspotting does not reduce readmissions
- Sadie Trammell Velasquez, MD
July 1, 2021
Does the addition of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Provider’s care-transition program prevent hospital readmission in high utilizers of health care services?
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News
Professional versus facility billing: What hospitalists must know
June 15, 2021
Hospitalists don’t often realize how much impact they have on their hospital’s revenue cycle and quality.
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News
Child suicides drive Colorado hospital to declare state of emergency
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
June 4, 2021
"I've been in pediatrics for two decades and have never seen anything like this before," said Dr. David Brumbaugh.
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News
Hospital admissions of nursing home patients declined after ACA quality initiatives
May 28, 2021
Following the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), how have hospital transfer rates from nursing homes for patients with advanced medical conditions changed?
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News
Making sense of LAMA discharges
May 26, 2021
There is no evidence that insurance companies will not pay for LAMA discharges.
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News
Hospital at Home: Delivering hospital-level care without the hospital
May 25, 2021
The future of HaH depends on development of a common payment model that will be adopted beyond the pandemic.
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News
Clinician well-being a top priority, Surgeon General says
May 7, 2021
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said he’ll push for scientists to be heard in an unpoliticized way.
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News
COVID experience underscores ‘vital’ role of hospital medicine
May 6, 2021
“The response to the acute care needs in this pandemic would have been impossible in the health care system that existed before hospitalists,” said Dr. Larry Wellikson.