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The cost of hospitalists
The lead author of a recent study finding that hospitalists bill higher than primary care physicians when seeing Medicare inpatients says that productivity bonus pay is problematic for the health care system.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/08/the-cost-of-hospitalists.htm
8 Jun 2022
10th Annual Top Hospitalists issue
Meet our 2017 Top Docs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/11/10th-annual-top-hospitalists.htm
15 Nov 2017
Do you know your core competencies?
Satyen Nichani, MD, ACP Member, explains the Society of Hospital Medicine's recently updated Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/qa-core-competencies.htm
15 Jul 2017
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/free/newman.htm
15 Jan 2017
Seeing readmissions from the patient's point of view
Researchers begin to investigate patient-reported outcomes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/patient-readmissions.htm
15 Sep 2015
A simple plan for complex patients
Care plans guide treatment of high utilizers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/07/care-plans-superutilizers.htm
15 Jul 2015
Supreme Court upholds federal subsidies for health insurance
The Supreme Court ruled last week that the premium subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act will continue to be available in states where the federal government manages health insurance marketplaces.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/07/01/3.htm
1 Jul 2015
Length of stay: Timing it right
Strategies for achieving efficient, high-quality care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/los.htm
15 Oct 2014
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue includes articles on optimizing length of stay, streamlining patient transfers, using new antibiotics for skin infections, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/lfe.htm
15 Oct 2014
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue includes articles on changes in the practice of hospital medicine due to health care reform, admitting (or not) patients for alcohol detoxification, and building a heparin calculator into an electronic health record.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/08/lfe.htm
15 Aug 2014