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Revisiting 2007 predictions for hospital medicine with Robert Wachter, MD, FACP.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/01/q-and-a-wachter-future.htm
15 Jan 2017
Most Medicare demos fail to reduce costs
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has analyzed recent Medicare demonstration projects and concluded that most have not reduced costs, but those that did had certain specific characteristics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/02/01/5.htm
1 Feb 2012
Position paper calls on CMS to revise plan to pay for sepsis performance
Paying hospitals based on the SEP-1 bundle would divert attention and resources from more effective ways to provide comprehensive sepsis care, said medical groups including the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society of Hospital Medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/25/position-paper-calls-on-cms-to-revise-plan-to-pay-for-sepsis-performance.htm
25 Oct 2023
Disparities in cardiac surgery mortality partially caused by hospital quality
Much, but not all, of the racial disparity in cardiac surgery outcomes can be explained by nonwhite patients being treating at lower-quality hospitals, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/01/15/2.htm
15 Jan 2014
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
And the winner is…
ACP HospitalistWeekly has tallied the voting from its latest cartoon contest, where readers are invited to match wits against their peers to provide the most original and amusing caption.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/05/11/7.htm
11 May 2011
ICD-10-CM specificity: The sky isn't falling
ICD-10-CM allows much greater specificity of diagnosis codes, it will require little more from physicians than ICD-9
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/07/ICD-10-CM-specificity.htm
15 Jul 2015
ICD-10: A few more new documentation needs
Coma, hepatic encephalopathy, pancreatitis, diabetes, and hypertension are discussed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/11/ICD-10-more-new-documentation-needs.htm
15 Nov 2015
MI performance measures, health literacy and LOS, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/02/recent-research.htm
15 Feb 2018
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