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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
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
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
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
Letter from the Editor
With health care reform in the news, bundled payments have been getting a lot of attention. Under this plan, payers would pay a lump sum per hospital admission that hospitals and physicians would share, in contrast to the current system based on separate billing for relative value units. Bundled payments offer possible advantages, but there are possible pitfalls, too.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/lfe.htm
15 Dec 2009
New reports signal health care costs for this decade
Tigecycline gets warning for mortality riskRecall of Huber needles due to risk of coring
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/09/15/5.htm
15 Sep 2010
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
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
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
Top Docs
Our fifth annual Top Hospitalists issue recognizes 10 dedicated physicians.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/11/topdocs.htm
15 Nov 2012