Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

She came to the hospital with three days of weakness, fever, chills, and anorexia. That night introduced me to the smell of melena — a smell that I now can recognize even rooms away on a hospital floor, and which also takes me back to that New York Hospital operating room in 1991. ” Back to where I began with LT.

Hospice 76

Hospice Hospitals Operations Sepsis 76

PulmCCM

MARCH 11, 2024

You probably don’t ever see this–you bill as usual, but CMS reportedly doesn’t pay your hospital for any of your 99292s until billed time goes over 104 minutes. Ascension is a $27 billion, 140-hospital conglomerate operating in 19 states—the third largest system in the U.S

Hospice 52

Hospice Documentation/Coding Administration Hospitals 52

Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

She came to the hospital with three days of weakness, fever, chills, and anorexia. That night introduced me to the smell of melena — a smell that I now can recognize even rooms away on a hospital floor, and which also takes me back to that New York Hospital operating room in 1991. ” Back to where I began with LT.

Hospice 52

Hospice Hospitals Operations Sepsis 52

PulmCCM

JANUARY 27, 2025

Intensivists are used to managing respiratory failure, shock, sepsis, pulmonary embolism, acute kidney injury, and hemorrhages—sometimes simultaneously. Concurrent palliative care should start promptly, and no later than 8 weeks after the diagnosis of advanced cancer (not as a final-hours transfer to hospice when death is imminent).

Hospice 89

Hospice Outcomes Sepsis Emergency Department 89