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Understanding Hospital Ratings (and how hospitals can game …

The current (2022) year CMS Hospital Quality Star Ratingis based on five elements: 1. Mortality (22%)– measured by the number of Medicare patients with specific diseases … See more

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DRGs That Pay The Most To Hospitals

WEBHere are the top 20 highest paying DRGs to hospitals (listed by the Average Medicare Payments): $223,532 – Heart transplant or implant of heart assist system with …

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Physician Income By Specialty: Does Length Of Residency …

WEBThis graph illustrates the mean total compensation for academic physicians reported by the MGMA in 2022. The most highly-compensated specialties were …

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How Hospitals Get Blood For Transfusion

WEBThe net result is that the blood suppliers are happy when more blood is transfused and the hospitals are happy when less blood is transfused. The average …

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Setting Achievable Hospital Quality Goals

WEBIn an academic medical center, there are all sorts of goals that are set for the physicians to achieve: Quality goals set by the hospital quality department. Productivity …

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How Does U.S. Health Care Compare To Other Countries

WEBValue = quality divide by price. So… does the United States have high quality and low price? Unfortunately, no. Every year, I look forward to the OECD annual health …

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What Does EMTALA Really Mean For The Hospital

WEBBy James Allen, MD. October 28, 2019. The EMTALA law was enacted 33 years ago as an “anti-dumping” law. EMTALA fundamentally has 2 main implications for the hospital: …

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Accountable Care Organizations Are A Paradigm Shift In Healthcare

WEBThe physicist and philosopher, Thomas Kuhn, popularized the concept of “paradigm shift” in reference to sudden, dramatic changes in scientific thought in his …

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The Value Of Shared Values

WEBThose shared values can mean many different things in different institutions. They can be dedication to clinical excellence, dedication, to educating the next …

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The Effect Of Free-Standing Emergency Departments

WEBApril 29, 2018. Freestanding emergency departments can provide emergency care in locations not immediately served by emergency departments contained in a hospital and …

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Size Matters: What Is The Best Patient Panel Size For A Primary …

WEBPopular Posts. What Is The Difference Between A Level 1, Level 2, And Level 3 Trauma Center? Our hospital recently became a level III trauma center 267.5k …

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How To Write A Pro Forma For A Doctor

WEBTo create the compelling pro forma, there are a couple of caveats. First, be concise. If the pro forma is longer than 1 or 2 pages, it is not going to be read in detail. …

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How Many Days Cash On Hand Should A Hospital Have

WEBPopular Posts. What Is The Difference Between A Level 1, Level 2, And Level 3 Trauma Center? Our hospital recently became a level III trauma center 267.6k …

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Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF): What Doctors And …

WEBPublic Service Loan Forgiveness is a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. It was created by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act …

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Predicting The Future Of Medicine In 2035

WEBIn 2035, new interns will chuckle when they hear about the “bad old days” in 2019 when doctors did all sorts of procedures that were replaced by better ways of …

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What Is The Difference Between A Level 1, Level 2, And Level 3 …

WEBPopular Posts. What Is The Difference Between A Level 1, Level 2, And Level 3 Trauma Center? Our hospital recently became a level III trauma center 267.8k views …

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40 Questions To Ask During Physician Contract Negotiations

WEBPopular Posts. What Is The Difference Between A Level 1, Level 2, And Level 3 Trauma Center? Our hospital recently became a level III trauma center 267.6k views …

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Why The Number Of Patient Phone Calls Are Increasing

WEBDoes it sometimes feel like you are getting more and more patient phone calls? Well, maybe you just are. Twenty years ago, there were some days that I would …

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Improving Your Outpatient Revenue: The CPT Codes You Forgot …

WEBIn my last post, I lamented that Medicare billing will earn me $614 per hour reading pulmonary function tests but only $107 per hour in outpatient clinical practice. …

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