HealthLeaders Media April 18, 2022
The growing number of hospitalists that are billing Medicare for higher-severity encounters may be an important driver of rising hospital costs.
Hospitalists are more likely to bill at the highest level of clinical severity possible for their medical encounters for hospitalized Medicare patients compared with non-hospitalist who see similarly complex patients, according to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In addition, this gap has been growing over time from the study’s earliest samples from 2009 to the latest in 2018, the study said.
The study looked at more than four million Medicare fee-for-service Part A and...
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