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Opinion
Am I still a hospitalist?
- Chad T. Whelan, MD, MHSA, SFHM
August 20, 2019
Hospital medicine and health care delivery systems should drive change in a coordinated, collaborative partnership.
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News
CDC finds that too little naloxone is dispensed
August 6, 2019
Despite increases in the number of naloxone prescriptions dispensed, many patients at risk for overdose are not offered the potentially life-saving treatment, according to an analysis of national retail pharmacy data.
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News
Critics say hospital price transparency proposal ‘misses the mark’
July 31, 2019
The proposal from CMS would require hospitals to make public both their list prices and the prices they negotiate with payers.
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CMS plans to give MIPS an overhaul
July 31, 2019
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the changes are designed to make measures more relevant and reporting less burdensome. The changes received a good early review from the American Medical Association.
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News
As patients, physicians fare nearly the same as everyone else
July 27, 2019
Physicians do only slightly better than nonphysicians in adhering to guidelines, “but not by much and not always.”
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News
MIPS: Nearly all eligible clinicians got a bonus for 2018
July 23, 2019
Exceeding the performance threshold resulted in a bonus to fee schedule payments in 2018.
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News
Adjustment for characteristics not used by Medicare reduces hospital variations in readmission rates
July 3, 2019
Can differences in hospital readmission rates be explained by patient characteristics not accounted for by Medicare?
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News
MedPAC to Congress: End “incident-to” billing
June 26, 2019
Access to care should not be affected by paying nurse practitioners and physician assistants 85% of the physician fee every time.
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Medicare may best Medicare Advantage at reducing readmissions
June 25, 2019
Editorialists provide reasons to exercise caution when interpreting the results.
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Benefits of Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs lacking
June 19, 2019
When employing an instrumental variable model, there was not an association with changes in total spending per beneficiary per quarter.