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Thinking About a Career Change to Telemedicine? Five Things to Consider.
Like many innovations developed and adopted in medical practice, telemedicine is an exciting tool that can solve a set of needs. Soon, we will imagine […]
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Creating Effective Team-Based Patient Care
Advanced practice providers (APPs) are a valuable component of team-based care in hospital medicine, emergency medicine, and critical care. A closer look at the traits […]
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Five Strategies to Win Peer-to-Peer Conversations
Engaging in a peer-to-peer review can be tedious, time-consuming, and frustrating for physicians. The process of chasing down information, going back and forth with the […]
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Anesthesia Teams: A Source of Surgery Center Leadership
Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) continue to grow in facility numbers, patient volumes, and the procedures they perform. A recent study by Bain & Co. cites […]
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Value-Based Critical Care
As we look to the next phase of healthcare reform, there’s every reason to believe there will be a continued push on coverage expansion. Leadership […]
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Becoming The Chair – One Physician Assistant’s Journey
Whether you’re considering a Physician Assistant (PA) profession, early in your PA career, or established and looking to grow, our conversation with April Burke will […]
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5 Steps – Building an Action-oriented Utilization Management Committee
The key to building an effective team for any purpose is having the right people focused on doing the right things. Your hospital’s Utilization Management […]
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CDI Week and Documenting COVID-19
Clinical Documentation Week coupled with the recent COVID resurge across the country is another poignant opportunity to remember the importance of complete, specific, and appropriate […]
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Mitigating the Impact of Nursing Shortages in the Emergency Department
Identifying life threats with speed and accuracy is the core mission of the emergency department and nurses play a critical role. No better example can […]
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How to Prioritize Clinical Documentation Integrity
Before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Diagnostic-Related Groups (DRG) started in 1983, clear and concise clinical documentation was less emphasized, however, clinical documentation […]
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Managing Denial Letters to Improve Payer Reimbursement
Imagine this all too familiar situation; you provided excellent care for a sick patient who required urgent hospital-level services. After discharge, you later discover a […]
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Leveraging Hospitalists to Lead Your Value-Based Care Strategy
With significant changes to Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCIA) set to start in just weeks, and the recent CMS signal that all hospitals […]
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Diagnosing sepsis in 2020
Reflecting on September and Sepsis Awareness Month, I harken back to my early training about the “facesheet,” the part of the medical record that contains […]
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The Influence of COVID-19 On Public Health and Health Policy
While the US manages new surges across parts of the country and hopes for Covid-19’s eventual eradication, its learnings will leave a mark on emergency […]
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Determining Correct Admission Status for COVID-19 Patients
Deciding on the correct admission status for COVID-19 patients is the first step toward proper hospital and provider reimbursement. Because of the unpredictable course of […]
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How the Pandemic is Influencing Emergency Medicine
In a recent episode of EPM Talk, host Mark L. Plaster, MD, JD, Founder and Director of Emergency Physicians Monthly interviewed Dr. Nathan Ruch, FACEP, […]
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Documenting COVID-19 Patients – Specificity is Key
The COVID-19 virus has caused enormous worldwide disruption over the past several months. Just as this tiny virus has caused huge impacts, small changes in […]
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Improving End of Life Care in the ICU
One in five people who die in the United States admit to an ICU before their death, according to a recent study published in the […]
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A Chief Hospitalist’s Perspective of Coronavirus in the U.S.
Located in Washington State, local to the first diagnosed case, Chief Hospitalist with Sound Physician, Dr. Farshid Rafatnia, answers critical questions and concerning the Coronavirus.
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Delirium or Acute Encephalopathy? Clearing up Common Coding Confusion
Acute encephalopathy is a global cerebral dysfunction in the absence of structural brain disease. Acute Encephalopathy is frequently coded incorrectly as delirium, which does not reflect how truly sick the patient is.