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CMS Proposes Changes to Two-Midnight Rule
On July 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed changes to its controversial two-midnight rule.
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Medicare Rankings Favor Small, For-Profit Hospitals
[caption id="attachment_10345" align="alignright" width="256"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] In April, the Centers for Medicare and...
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Consider ACO Participation As Medicare Weighs Changes to Shared Savings Program
In December 2014, nearly three years since its launch, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the first proposed rule changes...
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Medicare's Patient-Centered Medical Homes Return Mixed Results
In late January, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the early results of two multi-year innovation projects focused on...
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Vivek Murthy, Hospitalist and America’s Top Doctor
On Dec. 15, 2014, 37-year-old hospitalist and internist Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, was sworn in as the 19th surgeon general of the United States. He...
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Hospitalists Lead Efforts To Reduce Care Costs, Improve Patient Care
In 2015, reimbursement for physicians in large groups is subject to a value modifier that takes into account the cost and quality of services...
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Hospitalist Vivek Murthy, MD, Confirmed as U.S. Surgeon General
He has aged a year since President Obama nominated him for U.S. Surgeon General in November 2013, but on Monday Boston hospitalist Vivek Murthy,...
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Hospitalist Vivek Murthy, 37, Confirmed as U.S. Surgeon General
[caption id="attachment_7434" align="alignright" width="150"] Dr. Vivek Murthy, hospitalist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, was...
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Ebola Outbreak Reminds Hospitalists How To Prepare for Infectious Disease
When the outbreak first started, and in the months that followed, Ebola virus dominated American headlines.
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Medicare Program to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions Could Be Better
Medicare Program to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions Could Be BetterMedicare, hospital-acquired condition, reduce, patient safety, adverse...
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Better Prescription Practices Can Curb Antibiotic Resistance
Stewardship checklists, other recommendations to help hospitals keep antibiotic prescriptions in check
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Hospitalists Adopt Strategies to Become More Responsible Prescribers of Antibiotics
Antibiotic stewardship practices urged as antibiotic resistance emerges as global threat
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Hospitalist Ann Sheehy, MD, MS, FHM, Testifies Before Congress About Medicare
Outlines for lawmakers hospitalists’ concerns about two-midnight rule, observation status, audit program
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Delay in ICD-10 Implementation to Impact Hospitalists, Physicians, Payers
Additional costs, potential problems with system-wide rollouts among their concerns, but hospitalists urged to remain engaged
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Ann Sheehy, MD, MS, FHM, Outlines To Lawmakers Hospitalist Concerns about Two-Midnight Rule, Medicare Policies
SHM Public Policy Committee member explains flaws in observation status rule, RAC program