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.

Hospitals 298

Hospitals Inpatient 298

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 363

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.

Hospitals 343

Hospitals Inpatient 343

Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hospital pharmacists can play an important role in advocating for, designing, and implementing various policies to optimize care.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient 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.

Inpatient 117

Inpatient 117

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…

Inpatient 302

Inpatient Hospitals 302

STAT

JUNE 26, 2023

Dulaney spent two nights in a behavioral health emergency room before being sent to a general inpatient unit that had both men and women in Greensboro, N.C. Soon after, she began to quote scripture, grabbed her kids, and begged God to save them all. Then she passed out, and her husband called 911.

Inpatient 264

Inpatient 264

Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Cardioprotective antihyperglycemic agents are underutilized for inpatient care in heart failure patients. Lack of use can lead to preventable patient deaths and hospital readmissions.

Inpatient 12

Inpatient Hospitals 12

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.

Inpatient 94

Inpatient 94

Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 11, 2020

In this episode, I’ll discuss how to predict the pharmacotherapy needs of your patient and team during an inpatient medical emergency. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 40

Inpatient Hospitals Labelling 40

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 244

Hospitals Inpatient 244

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.

Health Insurance Companies 244

Health Insurance Companies Inpatient Hospitals 244

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…

Hospitals 199

Hospitals Inpatient 199

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 171

Hospitals Inpatient 171

vizient

MARCH 7, 2024

offered comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the FY 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule. Vizient, Inc.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient 52

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 212

Chemotherapy Inpatient 212

vizient

MARCH 7, 2024

Medical Device Tech Watch: With the migration of musculoskeletal procedures to the outpatient setting, inpatient providers can mitigate the volume loss with targeted ambulatory strategies. This edition of Tech Watch also surveys treatment options for diabetic neuropathy.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Diabetes 52

Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 30, 2024

Investigators determined the effectiveness of behavioral activation psychotherapy versus antidepressant medication management for inpatients with heart failure and depression.

Inpatient 55

Inpatient 55

vizient

MARCH 7, 2024

There is work underway that will begin to mitigate inpatient demand for pediatric behavioral health services later in the decade and drive steady outpatient growth across multiple sites.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 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

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 100

Inpatient 100

Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Dapo Amosu, MS, PharmD, DPLA, discusses his thoughts on how to advance medication use processes in inpatient and ambulatory settings and the role of the pharmacist in this endeavor.

Inpatient 55

Inpatient 55

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.

Inpatient 177

Inpatient 177

Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Kristen Peterson, PharmD, BCOP, reviews pharmacists’ pivotal role in optimizing patient transitions between inpatient and outpatient care settings to ensure treatment continuity and medication management in multiple myeloma care.

Inpatient 29

Inpatient 29

Pharmacy Times

APRIL 21, 2023

All-cause inpatient mortality or discharge to hospice was lower for patients who received dexamethasone within 48 hours of either admission or escalation in oxygen support.

Hospitals 49

Hospitals Inpatient 49

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 14, 2023

In-person visits to receive oral therapy, outpatient infusions, and inpatient infusion for the treatment of hematologic neoplasms declined in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, while telemedicine use increased slightly in the same period but remained low overall.

Inpatient 49

Inpatient 49

Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Outpatient Treatment Is Primarily Based on Patient-Specific Factors, Whereas Oseltamivir Remains the Therapy of Choice for Inpatient Settings.

Inpatient 58

Inpatient 58

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 24, 2024

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To join the Hospital Pharmacy Academy go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the inpatient acute care setting, oncology pharmacists maximize return on investments of oncology products, produce optimal outcomes, and ensure that quality of care is consistent and safe.

Inpatient 49

Inpatient 49

Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 17, 2024

Robert Mancini, PharmD, and Victoria Nachar, PharmD, discuss strategies and resources for smooth inpatient to outpatient transitions in myelofibrosis care, highlighting medication reconciliation, financial assistance, and the need for dedicated support staff.

Inpatient 26

Inpatient 26

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

Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Seventeen percent work in hospital settings, including compounding, inpatient, medication reconciliation, and outpatient areas.

Inpatient 49

Inpatient Compounding Hospitals 49

Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 15, 2023

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Inpatient 98

Inpatient 98

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 19, 2023

Episode 810: Sugammadex To Reduce Postoperative Myasthenic Crisis After Thymectomy Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher A group of authors in Japan recently analyzed the association between the use of sugammadex and postoperative myasthenic crisis in patients with myasthenia gravis using a national inpatient database.

Inpatient 59

Inpatient Hospitals 59

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 30, 2023

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Inpatient 105

Inpatient 105

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

JULY 19, 2022

Inpatient and Outpatient Consult Services. Most of the time when there is an inpatient consult service, there is also outpatient clinic followup. ACNPs can work in these facilities as many times, they are an extension of inpatient care and similar to the previous jobs listed.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals Documentation 52

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