Practice Management News

Quality improvement interventions increased electronic prescribing in the pediatric inpatient setting, a rate that was sustained for an additional 6 months despite the addition of new interns, according to recent findings.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment rates and makes policy changes that affect the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center payment system for 2017.

Recent findings indicated a connection between the implementation of a ‘care bundle’ and increased diagnostic paracentesis and antibiotic prophylaxis in patients hospitalized with decompensated cirrhosis, further suggesting the care bundle could improve overall managed care for these patients.

The next U.S. president should make advancing health care and the health of Americans a priority, according to an editorial published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Internal medicine residents are uncertain about the duration of their responsibilities for patients who have been discharged, according to survey results published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

From international law firm Arnold & Porter LLP comes a timely column that provides views on current regulatory and legislative topics that weigh on the minds of today’s physicians and health care executives.

The aminotransferase/alanine transaminase ratio, NAFLD fibrosis score and Fibrosis-4 score yielded poor accuracy in specificity for advanced fibrosis in adults aged 35 years and younger and elderly adults with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, per published findings in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

LAS VEGAS — In an emotional lecture at ACG 2016, Philip O. Katz, MD, gave his colleagues a look into what a patient experiences and how to best treat a peer.

The FDA has approved Roche’s cobas MPX test for use on the cobas 6800 and 8800 systems, according to a news release from the company.

Two separate analyses completed by the Commonwealth Fund and an economist at the Rand Corporation of proposed health care plans from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump show how each presidential candidate’s plan would affect citizens’ health care throughout America.