DRG-Blog

Schaum, Kathleen D. MS:
Certification Does Not Always Equal Separate Medicare Payment
Advances in Skin & Wound Care: November 2010 – Volume 23 – Issue 11 – pp 489-492, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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[DOI: 10.1097/01.ASW.0000390492.36211.e9]

Feinstein, Ara J. MD, MPH; Deckelbaum, Dan L. MD, MPH; Madan, Atul K. MD; McKenney, Mark G. MD, MBA:
Unsupervised Procedures by Surgical Trainees: A Windfall for Private Insurance at the Expense of Graduate Medical Education
Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care: January 2011 – Volume 70 – Issue 1 – pp 136-140, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

[DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182014caf]

Peter D McNair, Terri J Jackson and Daniel J Borovnicar:
The US Medicare policy of not reimbursing hospital-acquired conditions: what impact would such a policy have in Victorian hospitals?
MJA 2010; 193 (1): 22-25, The Medical Journal of Australia

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Jeff Goldsmith:
Analyzing Shifts In Economic Risks To Providers In Proposed Payment And Delivery System Reforms
Health Affairs, 29, no. 7 (2010): 1299-1304, Project HOPE

[DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0423]

Tracy J. Mayne, PhD, MS, Mary Burgess, MS, RD, and Joe Weldon, MBA:
Finding the case mix adjusters in the bundle
Nephrol News Issues. 2010 Feb;24(2):34, 37-8, 40, Grand View Media Group

[NephrOnline]

Thomson Reuters:
Most frequently billed Medicare DRGs: 2009. Ranked by 2008 Medicare patient discharges.
Mod Healthc. 2009 Jul 27;39(30):34, Crain Communications

[Modern Healthcare]

Jason A. Breaux MD, Mark French MHA and William S. Richardson MD, FACS
Effect of Natural Disaster on Routine Surgery
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Volume 209, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 352-355, Available online 9 July 2009, Elsevier

[DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.05.004]

Reaven, Nancy L., Rosenbloom, Judy:
Commentary on the reimbursement paradox
Critical Care Medicine: July 2009 – Volume 37 – Issue 7 – pp S285-S289, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

[DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181aa6288]

Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H., Cynthia J. Brown, M.D., and Mary E. Tinetti, M.D.:
Medicare Nonpayment, Hospital Falls, and Unintended Consequences
NEJM, Volume 360:2390-2393 June 4, 2009 Number 23, Massachusetts Medical Society

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Stephen F. Jencks, M.D., M.P.H., Mark V. Williams, M.D., and Eric A. Coleman, M.D., M.P.H.:
Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program
N Engl J Med 2009;360:1418-28, Massachusetts Medical Society

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