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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.
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Creating better performance incentives
June 17, 2019
There are better options than pay-for-performance programs.
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Opinion
Culture: An unseen force in the hospital workplace
- Prasanth Prabhakaran, MD;
- Venkatrao Medarametla, MD
May 17, 2019
The principles of crew resource management can be applied to hospital medicine to maintain positive work culture.
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CBO predicts more Medicare spending with drug rebate proposal
May 9, 2019
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that spending in the Medicare program would increase by $170 billion over the 2020-2029 period due to the proposed drug rebate changes.
News
Racial, economic disparities found in buprenorphine prescriptions
May 8, 2019
Black patients and patients without private health insurance are less likely to receive a buprenorphine prescription for opioid use disorder.
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News
Clinicians, CMS confer over heart failure–readmission penalty
April 10, 2019
Evidence showed the CMS hospital penalty for excess heart failure readmissions has had unintended adverse consequences and needs fixing.
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In search of high-value care
April 9, 2019
Successful adoption of high-value care practices requires a disciplined approach.
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Adapting to change key to hospitalists’ future, SHM president says
March 26, 2019
“Run toward change,” Dr. Afsar urged attendees. “And be a force of positive change.”