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Lately, the topic of competency of advanced practice providers (APPs), also known as physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs), has come up frequently within hospitals and large health care organizations. These groups have been hiring more new APP graduates and want to know how long it will take for them to get up to speed within the institution...
Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House and Senate would incorporate sociodemographic data when calculating hospital readmission rates, which the American Hospital Association (AHA) said would improve the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program...
As recently as 15 years ago, the approach to pain management was a symptomatic one, whereby the symptom of pain was hidden or minimized with a general analgesic such as an opioid or acetaminophen. Additional pain relief was sought by treating the underlying disease under the assumption that the pain would resolve if you did so...
In 2014, Inova Loudoun Hospital celebrated the one-year anniversary of Inova Wheeler Family Emergency Department – Leesburg. This building provides patients with a newer, more convenient place to go for western Loudouners when an emergency occurs...
Testifying before a U.S. House subcommittee on March 3, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, M.D., credited the advent of electronic health record systems with providing the big data necessary for President Obama’s new $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative...
Last fall, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, which makes significant changes to federal quality reporting requirements and holds physicians to an increasingly high bar. Satisfactory participation in Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) becomes especially critical because 2015 marks the official end of PQRS incentive payments as the program transitions to penalties only...
A proposed congressional "doc fix" deal will include a permanent repeal of Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula and a two-year extension of the Children's Health Insurance Program with a total cost exceeding $200 billion...
The 2015 Advanced Pediatric Emergency Medicine Assembly is quickly approaching. March 24th through 26th at the Hilton New York Midtown will be the hottest spot in the country to brush up on your pediatric emergency medicine skills or take your dual-boarded training to the next level...