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Opinion
New Rules for Value-Based Purchasing, Readmission Penalties, Admissions
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
October 1, 2013
What hospitalists should know about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ revised guidelines for hospital performance measures
News
How To Avoid Medicare Denials for Critical-Care Billing
October 1, 2013
The basic principles of documentation for services provided to critical-care and injured hospital patients
News
SHM Advocates for Medicare to Cover Skilled-Nursing Facilities
October 1, 2013
Hospitalists push to pass Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act that counts observation status toward three-day requirement for SNF patient care
News
SHM Introduces Discounted PQRS Through New Learning Portal
October 1, 2013
Allows hospitalists to report data on quality measures for services for Medicare beneficiaries at a lower rate
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News
Hospitalist Groups Extract New Solutions Via Data Mining
October 1, 2013
Technology can assist with clinical decision-making, predict health insurance fraud, identify at-risk patients
News
CMS Allows Residents, Advanced Practitioners to Admit Inpatients
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center;
- Boston;
- Harvard Medical School;
- Jim Hart, MD, MBA;
- Joseph Ming Wah Li, MD, SFHM, FACP
September 25, 2013
Clarification to agency’s final rule dispels concerns about limited admitting privileges for nonstaff physicians
News
Information Exchange Among Hospitals, Healthcare Providers Spikes
September 11, 2013
Number of exchanges overall jumps 41%, though amount of shared clinical-care summaries, medication lists still lacking
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Opinion
MGMA Physician Compensation Survey Raises Questions About Performance Pay
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
September 1, 2013
Survey includes extra-shift and bonus pay into median compensation figure for hospitalists, though not all physicians earn performance incentives
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News
New Thinking, Higher Expectations Needed to Solve Hospital Readmission Problem
- Robert W. Harrington Jr., MD, SFHM
September 1, 2013
Hospitalists should engage outside health-care providers to help safely transition discharged patients
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Opinion
Patient Satisfaction Surveys Not Accurate Measure of Hospitalists’ Performance
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
September 1, 2013
Hospitalists should look beyond Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System (HCAHPS) scores and develop hospitalist-specific patient-satisfaction questionnaires