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SHM, Hospitalists Play Key Roles in CMS Innovation
February 29, 2012
A lot has happened in the past year at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and many details can now be filled in. Some of those details directly relate to the work of hospitalists.
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Massachusetts Healthcare Law Highlights Implications for National Healthcare Reform
- Christopher Guadagnino, PhD
February 29, 2012
The Massachusetts experience represents a microcosm of what might be expected on a national scale with the Affordable Care Act: success in covering the uninsured, but persistent access and cost challenges that can only be overcome with fundamental payment reform.
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John Nelson: ED Patient Throughput Is New Core Measure
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
February 29, 2012
Hospitals are likely to increase their customers’ satisfaction by improving “frontend” throughput from the ED to the inpatient unit. In fact, CMS added two new core measures (known as inpatient quality reporting, or IQR) that hospitals began reporting on Jan. 1.
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Incentives to Improve Hospital Readmission Rates OK
February 29, 2012
Is it legal to incentivize hospitalists to reduce readmission rates?
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Physician Involvement in Hospital Quality and Safety Programs
January 27, 2012
Do we encourage all doctors to participate, or do we require all doctors to participate?
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Continued Pressure, Collaboration, Member Action Key to Ending SGR
January 27, 2012
Congress was going to finally put an end to the Sustainable Growth Rate formula in 2011. What happened?
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IPAB is Medicare’s New Hammer for Spending Accountability
- Christopher Guadagnino, PhD
January 27, 2012
The Independent Payment Advisory Board will have the authority to cut Medicare provider spending to keep it below a cap, with unprecedented autonomy.
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Pioneer Participants Work to Define Hospitalist Role in ACOs
- Joseph Ming-Wah Li, MD, MPH, SFHM
January 27, 2012
ACOs aim for quality care and cost savings; hospital medicine will be key player.
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Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
January 27, 2012
The measures matter to patients, info is publicly reported, and money is at risk.
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Healthcare Legislative Advocacy Isn’t Above Your Pay Grade
January 27, 2012
It's imperative for hospitalists to educate, advocate, and lead in healthcare.