STAT

OCTOBER 17, 2024

UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and CVS Health targeted denials among older adults who were requesting care in nursing homes, inpatient rehab hospitals, and long-term hospitals.

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Nursing Homes Inpatient Hospitals 363

STAT

OCTOBER 3, 2024

This week Medicare regulators released a 79-page report on a pandemic-era home hospital program that allowed approved health systems to deliver inpatient care in people’s homes.   Sign up to get it  delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.

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Hospitals Inpatient 302

STAT

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“We have seen a further slight uptick in the inpatient side related to Covid,” Humana CFO Susan Diamond said Wednesday at a conference held by Wells Fargo. But it didn’t expect the uptick to come during the waning summer months.

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Hospitals Inpatient 346

STAT

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Clinical floors will be designed to accommodate inpatient recovery, surgery, and imaging technology, services typically spread across multiple floors. “It blurs the lines between digital and physical,” Mayo’s chief executive, Gianrico Farrugia, told STAT.

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Mayo Clinic Inpatient Hospitals 364

STAT

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s a complex procedure with a lot of serious side effects that must be closely monitored, so it’s typically provided at hospitals in the inpatient setting, sometimes outpatient, and almost never in doctor offices. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Inpatient Hospitals 307

STAT

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Starting this year, private Medicare plans have to cover their members’ hospitalizations at the higher inpatient rate if their doctors predict they’ll have to stay beyond two midnights. It’s the same rule — appropriately called the two-midnight rule — that traditional Medicare has followed for a decade.

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Hospitals Inpatient 319

STAT

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee’s subcommittee on oversight, this week asked the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate whether HCA is improperly admitting emergency department patients to the hospital when they don’t need inpatient care. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.),

Inpatient 246

Inpatient Hospitals 246

STAT

JUNE 5, 2024

The FTC sued to block the deal in January, arguing that it would give Novant control of more than 65% of the region’s inpatient market. A federal judge ordered Wednesday that Novant Health can move forward with its plan to buy two North Carolina hospitals, denying the Federal Trade Commission’s request for an injunction.

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Hospitals Inpatient 286

STAT

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

These facilities will run emergency rooms, but not inpatient care. That’s according to Medicare’s final rule laying out the parameters for so-called Rural Emergency Hospitals, a designation that takes effect Jan. 1, 2023 for facilities that opt in. billion annually. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Hospitals 246

Hospitals Inpatient 246

STAT

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The plan gained national renown among employers and health care price reform advocates when, in 2016, it established maximum amounts the health plan would pay for all inpatient and outpatient services. Those amounts were pegged to Medicare reimbursement rates.

Hospitals 254

Hospitals Inpatient 254

STAT

JANUARY 25, 2024

The federal government is suing to block a proposed hospital deal in North Carolina, alleging it would hand control of over 65% of the inpatient market in the region to a single provider.

Hospitals 302

Hospitals Inpatient 302

STAT

DECEMBER 12, 2024

” This new mandate directs hospitals to gather data on the costs of inpatient and emergency care for patients without legal status. Beginning Nov. 1, 2024, however, hospitals across Texas are required to ask each patient the question: “Are you a U.S. It turns a place of refuge into a checkpoint.

Hospitals 280

Hospitals Inpatient 280

STAT

MARCH 13, 2023

When NaviHealth began building a business around using algorithms to scrutinize the care of older patients a decade ago, one of the country’s largest chains of inpatient rehab and long-term care hospitals was among the first to invest.

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Health Insurance Companies Inpatient Hospitals 246

STAT

MAY 20, 2024

What HHS proposed for addressing the climate crisis is a regulatory illusion intended to accomplish nothing.

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Hospitals Inpatient 267

STAT

AUGUST 8, 2023

On inpatient medical services, it’s common to hear patients’ laboratory results presented with statements sounding like “CALCE-MAG-FOSS were normal.” ” The efficiency of this reporting is part of the secret handshake of one insider communicating with another.

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Inpatient Communication Hospitals 246

EMCrit Project

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Consequently, a single person will often be responsible for both inpatient ICU management as well as inpatient pulmonary consultation. In many countries, pulmonary and critical care are commonly bundled together. Honestly, I have some doubts about whether this is an ideal system.

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Hospitals Inpatient 143

STAT

JANUARY 17, 2023

billion of annual revenue and controls large swaths of the state’s inpatient and outpatient services. “Growth is really important to us,” said Rob McMurray, CFO of ChristianaCare, a hospital system headquartered in Delaware that has $2.6 Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Hospitals Inpatient 200

STAT

JULY 20, 2023

On an August Thursday in 2021, deep into the pandemic, two Massachusetts General Hospital doctors stood gowned, gloved, bootied up and ready in a retrofitted lounge on the 21st floor of Phillips House,  a 20-single-room, inpatient area with sweeping views of Boston, the Charles River and neighboring Cambridge. Just after 3 p.m.

Inpatient 190

Inpatient Hospitals 190

STAT

AUGUST 9, 2023

My first exposure to pharmaceutical shortages happened in 2017 as a new-to-practice nurse working on an inpatient oncology unit. A hurricane in Puerto Rico had left the U.S. short of sodium chloride minibags.

Chemotherapy 246

Chemotherapy Inpatient 246

RX Note

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, a significant number of dedicated pharmacists work diligently in inpatient settings, ensuring accurate medication dispensing to hospitalized patients. Having transitioned from outpatient to inpatient pharmacy, I personally prefer the latter due to its reduced patient-related stress. mcg/kg/hour?

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Inpatient Medication Dispensing Patient Counseling Community Pharmacies 40

Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

High COVID-19 hospital caseload strain led to increases in inpatient adverse events among patients both with and without SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Inpatient Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 11, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the association between number of learners trained per year and rates of burnout among inpatient pharmacists. Episode 903: Does the Number of Learners Trained Per Year Influence the Chances of an Inpatient Pharmacist Experiencing Burning Out?

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Pharmacy Technician Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 11, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the association between number of learners trained per year and rates of burnout among inpatient pharmacists. The majority of survey participants worked in ambulatory care, with about one-fourth working an inpatient role and one-seventh working an infrastructure role.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Pharmacy Technician Hospitals 52

pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CAR-T therapies can achieve remarkable efficacy in the treatment of haematological cancers, but the risk of side effects means that the cell infusions are almost always administered to inpatients under close supervision in clinics.

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Inpatient 119

Pharmacy Joe

MAY 1, 2024

A 50 y/o male with an SSTI had an unknown allergy to penicillin, received a single dose of ceftriaxone in the ED and was then switched to piperacillin-tazobactam as an inpatient. He experienced a rash to the piperacillin-tazobactam as an inpatient. She experienced a rash to the nafcillin as an inpatient.

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Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The authors concluded: On average, among a large sample of adult inpatients who ultimately received broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, delaying initiation of a broad-spectrum antibiotic was not associated with worse outcomes. vs 11.8%, but adverse medication event rates were higher after delayed broad-spectrum therapy at 8.4%

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

vizient

MARCH 7, 2024

With the increasing shift of treatment from inpatient to outpatient settings, come questions about which medications can safely be used at alternate sites of care facilities. The new Vizient Pharmacy Site of Care Database can help answer those questions.

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Inpatient 94

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

JUNE 1, 2023

Their recommendations are as follows: Outpatient management Able to follow return precautions Likely to continue with alcohol use disorder treatment Supportive living environment Inpatient management Requires frequent physician and nursing intervention Heavy sedation requirements or active delirium tremens Coexisting medical diagnoses that require (..)

Inpatient 246

Inpatient Hospitals 246

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Inpatient wound care teams provided long-term support and a nutrition consult ordered protein, micronutrient, and vitamin supplementation. Clonidine is often added back to their regimens inpatient as their vital signs tolerate.

HIV Treatment and Prevention Agents 161

HIV Treatment and Prevention Agents Inpatient Hospitals Diabetes 161

Express Pharma

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Rocuronium Bromide Injection, 50 mg/5 mL (10 mg/mL) and 100 mg/10 mL (10 mg/mL) Multiple-Dose Vials is the generic version of Zemuron Injection, 50 mg/5 mL and 100 mg/10 mL of Organon USA and is indicated for inpatients and outpatients as an adjunct to general anesthesia to facilitate both rapid sequence and routine tracheal intubation, and to provide (..)

Inpatient 105

Inpatient 105

PharmExec

JULY 11, 2024

OncLive serves as the connection to oncology, including groundbreaking cancer news and interviews with top oncologists in multimedia formats.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 29, 2023

It should be noted that this was a secondary analysis of an existing study and therefore should be hypothesis generating, not necessarily practice-changing, and it is unknown whether inpatients who experience shock-refractory in-hospital cardiac arrest would gain the same benefits as patients in this study.

Hospitals 105

Hospitals Inpatient 105

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

APRIL 12, 2024

In collaboration with the inpatient team, intrapleural thrombolytics were administered via the pigtail catheter did not resolve the issue. For loculated effusions and empyemas, an interdisciplinary inpatient discussion should weigh the pros and cons of intrapleural thrombolytics versus surgical drainage and pleurodesis.

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Inpatient 183

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 13, 2025

If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharma cists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To get immediate access to these and more practical resources to help you in your practice go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 16, 2025

If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharma cists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To get immediate access to this and many other resources to help in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The increased costs for patients with recurrent hyperkalemia were driven by the increased inpatient medical cost of additional time spent in the hospital following recurrence.

Inpatient 59

Inpatient Hospitals 59

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 6, 2025

If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharma cists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– Current monthly members of the Hospital Pharmacy Academy can also access this discount by going to their member profile page at pharmacyjoe.com/profile.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52