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Sort by: Relevance | Newest | OldestCMS quality demo pays dividends for hospitals, but not always financially
Results from the first three years of the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) suggest that while bonuses were something to shoot for, they weren't the primary motivators for most participants. Instead, some hospitals viewed their participation as an opportunity to implement a tracking system, identify areas for improvement and see how they stacked up against other hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/cover-story.htm
15 Sep 2007
ICD-10-CM specificity: The sky isn't falling
ICD-10-CM documentation requirements will not require much more from physicians than is already needed
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/08/ICD-10-CM-specificity.htm
15 Aug 2015
Asymptomatic bacteriuria treatment averted due to fewer urine cultures, study finds
Michigan hospitals successfully reduced their use of antibiotics in asymptomatic patients with positive urine cultures, and the difference could be tied to less culturing, since use of antibiotics among asymptomatic patients who got cultures didn't change significantly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/12/asymptomatic-bacteriuria-treatment-averted-due-to-fewer-urine-cultures-study-finds.htm
12 Jul 2023
Placing priority on pressure ulcers
Current emphasis on public reporting of quality scores has helped make accurate documentation and effective management of pressure ulcers crucial health care considerations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/coding.htm
15 Aug 2011
In the News
Reports to the FDA of drug-related injury and death nearly tripled in the past eight years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/itn.htm
15 Nov 2007
High-value care, tele-ICUs, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/in-the-news.htm
15 Feb 2021
ACC and AHA update performance measures for STEMI and NSTEMI
The update has 17 performance measures, including four new ones, and seven quality measures, all of them new.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/09/27/2.htm
27 Sep 2017
Medicare reports on the 2015 Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier
The “x factor” affects payments.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/05/coding-VBPM.htm
15 May 2015
Predicting the future at Hospital Medicine 2007
Robert M. Wachter, FACP, describes hospital medicine in 2017.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/hosp-med.htm
15 Jul 2007
Coding corner
Coding corner: ICD-9 changes take effect.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/coding.htm
15 Oct 2008