Search results for "Reimbursement"
Heart failure documentation and coding challenges
Identifying the systolic versus diastolic nature of heart failure is crucial for clinical management and coding purposes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/coding-corner-heart-failure-documentation-challenges.htm
15 Feb 2019
Brazil's first hospital medicine congress offers promise, challenges
Brazil's first hospital medicine congress offers promise, challenges.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/08/brazil.htm
15 Aug 2008
Pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary heart disease
Documentation and coding for these cases are surprisingly challenging.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/04/coding-pulmonary.htm
15 Apr 2015
Hospital medicine update
The reimbursement spotlight is shifting to pay-for-performance, and this year's moderators for the update in hospital medicine at Internal Medicine 2007 in San Diego discussed its impact on physicians.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/med-update.htm
15 Jun 2007
Rapid testing for infectious disease
A potential boon but no magic bullet.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/rapid-tests-ID.htm
15 Jan 2016
Changes afoot at physician-owned specialty hospitals
When Oklahoma Heart Hospital opened in August 2002 in Oklahoma City, it didn't take long for nearby community hospital Baptist Medical Center to realize it needed to make some changes to offset the loss of patients. But new government and state regulations will mean changes in the specialty hospital workplace in the coming months and years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/cover-story.htm
15 Aug 2007
Accelerated hypertension
Coding terminology hasn't caught up with the currently accepted clinical diagnostic terms for severe, uncontrolled hypertension.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/10/coding.htm
15 Oct 2010
Stressing about superbugs
Experts discuss crisis of antimicrobial resistance.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/08/antimicrobial-resistance.htm
15 Aug 2015
Surgical comanagement done right
With no clear definition of surgical comanagement, it's no wonder that hospitalists disagree on which patients should be comanaged, how arrangements should be structured, and whether the whole movement toward comanagement is a boon or bane for hospitalists and their patients. Our cover story examines the concept and offers tips on making comanagement work for your group.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/cover.htm
15 Mar 2009
How to be appealing: Peer-to-peer conversations 101
Typically there is general agreement between the clinical side and the payer side. But reasonable people can disagree.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/08/perspectives-how-to-be-appealing-peer-to-peer-conversations-101.htm
15 Aug 2020