Search results for "Observation status"
December 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/12/
April 2012
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/04/
October 2012
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/
July 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/07/
September 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/
November 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/
Top Docs
The doctors recognized in ACP Hospitalist’s first annual Top Hospitalists issue include teachers, quality improvement gurus, researchers and bloggers. They’ve focused on improving geriatric care, growing hospital admissions, facilitating transitions of care and raising staff satisfaction. ACP Hospitalist’s editorial board members sifted through the nominations and narrowed the field down to 10 Top Hospitalists, who are profiled here.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/cover.htm
15 Nov 2008
Is it observation or inpatient?
The question of “observation or inpatient” has perplexed hospital physicians for some time, but it's recently acquired greater financial significance. Recovery audit contractors paid by Medicare will be looking at hospitals' one-day admissions to determine whether patients were appropriately admitted or should have been under observation status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/observation.htm
15 Nov 2009
Letter from the Editor
This issue features the results of our second annual Top Hospitalists competition. The 10 hospitalists in our cover feature, chosen by our editorial advisory board, are a varied group of professionals working in different ways to make the field of hospital medicine better. You may recognize some of the names and faces of our Top Ten, but we also hope that some will be new to you.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/lfe.htm
15 Nov 2009
acp-hosp1106_acp-hosp0000
Initial observation carecodes (99218-99220) have not changed and are assigned forthe first day. ... Obviously, subsequent observation care codes would onlybe used if observation status lasts for three days or more: aninitial observation code for the first day, code 99217 on thedate of discharge, and
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/acph-201106-coding1.pdf
1 Jun 2011