News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: February 20, 2019
Facility-based measurement represents a massive philosophical and practical shift in CMS measure reporting.
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: March 23, 2018
Membership in SHM contributes directly to the advocacy efforts of the Society.
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: January 28, 2016
The diversity of hospitalist practice—from the variety of settings (such as inpatient acute, observation, post-discharge clinics, and post-acute-care ...
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: December 24, 2015
On the heels of last year’s repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, 2016 promises to be a year of significant changes for the healthcare ...
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: November 4, 2015
Nearly three-quarters of hospitals will be receiving penalties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2016 for excess readmissio...
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: May 5, 2015
ACO aims to provide more efficient, less costly coordinated care for patients
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: September 1, 2014
Society of Hospital Medicine renews call for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to designate specialty billing code for hospitalists
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: March 1, 2014
Shift in reimbursement toward quality of care expected to encourage comparison of costs charged by physicians, other hospital medicine groups to sa...
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: December 1, 2013
Proposed legislation would cover advance-care planning consultations between patients, healthcare providers
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: October 1, 2013
Hospitalists push to pass Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act that counts observation status toward three-day requirement for SNF patient car...
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: August 1, 2013
Physician quality reporting system (PQRS) and physician value-based payment modifier (VBPM) plan could reward high-quality, low-cost health care
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: May 2, 2013
Change would enable beneficiaries to qualify for Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility care after leaving the hospital
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: March 1, 2013
Appeals to Congress by Society of Hospital Medicine members helped secure reauthorization of funding for NQF, a nonprofit organization designed to ...
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: December 2, 2012
The Society of Hospital Medicine's (SHM) action alerts allow hospitalists to engage directly with elected representatives on key policy issues
News Author: Joshua Lapps Publish date: July 3, 2012
What might not be of immediate concern to the newly minted, patient-focused doctor is the need to heal the medical system.
