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Dedicated ICU management: Navigating the transition
As patient needs become more complex and technological advancements drive new treatment possibilities, intensive care units (ICUs) must adapt to deliver the highest standards of […]
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Practicing what we preach: Keeping readmissions low
A recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that select hospitals throughout the country are doing something exceptional: Keeping unplanned […]
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Intentionality makes the difference: Improving emergency department wait times
For a patient, entering a hospital’s emergency department (ED) can feel like stepping into a whirlwind of uncertainty. The fluorescent lights, sterile smells, and sea […]
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What makes a great ICU? Just ask our intensivists.
Today’s hospitals are treating sicker patients — critically ill patients with more complex conditions — because circumstance demands it. With fewer patients coming to the […]
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As hospital workforce challenges persist, Sound Physicians doubles down on what is working
The same set of challenges is playing out in hospitals across the country: Turnover, compensation changes, post-Covid burnout, and workforce departures all are contributing to […]
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Why a Medicare Advisor program makes sense
In today’s world of hospital-based medicine, every dollar counts. It’s the rare hospital — if any hospital at all — that’s experiencing particularly strong financials […]
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Medicare Advisor: Timely and appropriate conversion from observation to inpatient
Medicare Advisor is Sound Physicians’ solution to a nearly ubiquitous problem: patients are often discharged under observation services when they would have been appropriate for […]
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Avoiding the avoidable: Keeping readmissions low
In the world of hospital medicine, avoidable readmissions take both a financial and emotional toll on everyone involved. For hospitals, the additional cost of care […]
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Emergency medicine is changing: Rising to the challenge
How Americans seek acute unscheduled care is changing in ways that challenge traditional emergency department operations. As a national medical group with emergency medicine practices across […]
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Exploring the top 5 best practices for Sound Critical Care: Multidisciplinary rounds
The critical care unit is a truly special place. It’s where we care for the sickest, most vulnerable patients. Clinicians must be on their toes, […]
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Patient care past the bedside
Dr. Melissa Buchner-Mehling, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Advisory Services at Sound Physicians, is a highly valued member of Sound’s advisory team. Her accomplished career […]
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Clinical integration: What it takes, and why we should do more of it
If you could improve your hospital’s quality of care, lower costs, and see your clinicians better engaging with each other and across service lines, why […]
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CMS Documentation Changes are Here
The last time documentation requirements to support clinician billing changed was 1997. I was an intern then at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, and I […]
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Transitioning to Value in the New Normal
Throughout the pandemic, the U.S. healthcare community has valiantly and collectively battled one of the most significant healthcare challenges our country has ever seen. After […]
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DRG Downgrades: Prevent and Dispute Payer Revisions
Commercial and public payers are estimated to deny about one in every ten submitted claims, costing health systems up to 2% of net patient revenue […]
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Transitioning Health Systems to Value-Based Care
The transition to value-based care puts costly acute care under a magnifying glass. The United States spends $3.8 trillion on healthcare annually. Astonishingly, acute episodes […]
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Three Key Strategies for Improving Acute Med-Psych Patient Status and Management
An estimated 30% of individuals have medical and psychiatric illnesses when entering an emergency department. Co-occurrence of medical and psychiatric illnesses is one of the […]
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Tactics to Successfully Appeal a Denial Letter
When creating an appeal letter, clarity and brevity are essential to increasing success. Now more than ever, overturning denials is critical for hospitals’ revenue cycles. […]
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Sustaining Affordability in Emergency Medicine
As COVID-19 has tested us to our core, it begs the question: Is sustaining operational affordability in emergency medicine (EM) possible? The pandemic morphed and […]
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Redefining Patient Surveys to Improve Care
Understanding how patients perceive the care they receive is imperative towards any healthcare organization’s success. For many years we have often relied on surveys that […]