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Trump, not health care, likely focus of midterm elections
September 21, 2018
Will the 2018 U.S. midterm elections prove health care to be a significant issue at the polls?
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Is CMS becoming more open to PTAC recommendations?
September 20, 2018
Doctors have been puzzled as to why federal health officials have yet to approve a physician-developed APM under QPP.
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Hospitalist movers and shakers – Sept. 2018
September 17, 2018
Take note of some recent career transitions in the hospital medicine community.
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Penalties not necessary to save money in some Medicare ACOs
September 5, 2018
Groups participating in MSSP were “associated with a mean differential reduction of $302 in total Medicare spending per beneficiary in the 2012 entry of cohorts of ACOs.”
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CMS pushes ACOs to take on more risk
August 10, 2018
ACOs that only take on upside risk generally are spending more money and not generating savings, according to CMS Adminstrator Seema Verma.
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Documentation and billing: Tips for hospitalists
- Bonnie Epps, MSN, RN;
- David Tong, MD
August 3, 2018
The goal is not to bill as much as possible but rather to document appropriately.
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Opinion
Positive change through advocacy
- Ron Greeno, MD, FCCP, MHM
August 3, 2018
SHM past president Dr. Ron Greeno says the society takes the lead on issues that impact the U.S. health care system.
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The rapidly disappearing community pediatric inpatient unit
- Weijen W. Chang, MD, SFHM, FAAP
July 12, 2018
Across the U.S., pediatric inpatient units in community hospitals have failed to even flirt with breaking even.
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Medicare hospital deaths decline, hospice usage increases
June 26, 2018
During 2000-2015, Medicare recipients became less likely to die in hospitals.
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Do free meals to physicians affect opioid prescribing?
June 19, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Physicians who received 1 free meal made about 150 opioid claims; those who received more than 10 made more than 700 claims.