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Medicare's recent announcement that it will stop paying for some hospital-acquired conditions has hospitals ramping up their quality improvement efforts, and some experts predict that hospitalists are likely to find themselves center stage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/cover-story.htm
15 Nov 2007
Collaborating across the miles
ICUs, hospitalists, intensivists improve outcomes for the critically ill.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/collab.htm
15 Apr 2008
HCCs explained
Hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) are used by Medicare for risk adjustment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/coding-corner-hccs-explained.htm
15 Jun 2019
Next-gen computers programmed to listen, advise and diagnose
Will computers someday replace physicians as diagnosticians?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/diagnosis.htm
15 Aug 2011
Conference coverage: potential benefits, limitations of ACO model discussed
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) were the topic of much speculation and debate at two recent conferences.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/02/16/2.htm
16 Feb 2011
Notes from the field: Hospital medicine in Japan
In Japan, hospital medicine may help to resolve several pressing issues, the biggest being the aging population.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/01/newman.htm
15 Jan 2017
Taking steps with mobility techs
Patient care nursing assistants were trained to get patients moving.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/11/success-story-taking-steps-with-mobility-techs.htm
15 Nov 2019
The ABCs of DRGs
Learn about the history and significance of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/coding-corner-the-abcs-of-drgs.htm
15 May 2019
In the News
Malpractice claims, fenoldopam after cardiac surgery in acute kidney injury, beta-lactams and community-acquired pneumonia, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/02/itn.htm
15 Feb 2015
How documentation impacts VBPM, PQRS
Starting in 2015, what hospitalists record will affect their facilities' Value-Based Payment Modifier and Physician Quality Reporting System results.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/09/coding.htm
15 Sep 2014