Search results for "Reimbursement"
Striving for 100% customer satisfaction
Striving for 100% customer satisfaction As patient satisfaction figures more prominently in health care and quality measurement, some worry that hospitals' standard patient satisfaction surveys don’t accurately measure hospitalist care. How should hospitalists prepare for future use of satisfaction data?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/cover.htm
15 Jul 2008
Practices report gradual shifts toward tying pay to quality and patient satisfaction metrics
Quality measures are a small but possibly increasing percentage of total compensation for physicians, a recent report found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/09/2.htm
9 Jul 2014
ACP President: SGR repeal “extraordinary and historic”
On April 16, President Obama signed a bill repealing Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and transitioning to a new value-based payment system.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/04/22/1.htm
22 Apr 2015
What is clinical validation?
Diagnoses documented in a patient's record must be substantiated by clinical criteria generally accepted by the medical community.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/coding-clinical-validation.htm
15 Dec 2016
How to launch a bedside procedure service
Hospitalist-led services can increase efficiency and safety.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/06/bedside-procedure-service.htm
15 Jun 2015
Functional quadriplegia
Functional quadriplegia is clinically comparable to physical quadriplegia but is rarely diagnosed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/05/coding.htm
15 May 2012
Low-risk chest pain patients unlikely to have cardiac events during hospitalization
Patients who were admitted for chest pain but had negative serial biomarker results had very few adverse cardiac events during hospitalization, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/05/20/1.htm
20 May 2015
Diabetic complications—Part 1
Learn to properly document common acute complications of diabetes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/coding-corner-diabetic-complications-part-1.htm
15 Sep 2019
Windshield time and North Dakota nice
Despite having one of the country's lowest reimbursement rates, North Dakota offers above average scores on access, quality, utilization, equity and health outcomes in recent rankings.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/dakota.htm
15 Nov 2008
Criteria describe appropriate use of cardiac cath
New criteria provide guidance on when cardiac catheterization is appropriate to evaluate patients for heart disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/05/16/3.htm
16 May 2012