In this episode, we are joined by TeamHealth clinicians Dr. Michael Corvini, Southeast Division President and Dr. Rohit Uppal, Chief Clinical Officer, Hospitalist Services to discuss the impact of current industry challenges on high-quality hospital medicine services and how TeamHealth is helping providers navigate these issues. This episode is sponsored by TeamHealth.
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TeamHealth clinicians discuss impact of industry challenges on hospital medicine services
In this episode, we are joined by TeamHealth clinicians Dr. Michael Corvini, Southeast Division President, and Dr. Rohit Uppal, Chief Clinical Officer, Hospitalist Services, to discuss the impact of current industry challenges on high-quality hospital medicine services and how TeamHealth is helping providers navigate these issues. This episode is sponsored by TeamHealth.
Hospitalists and Intensivists are Essential during the Pandemic
Hospitalists and intensivists are specialists who focus on the care of hospitalized patients. They bring a high level of technical expertise as well as communication skills to ensure that patients receive compassionate care. During the pandemic, hospitalists and intensivists have become even more essential to hospitals' daily operations. They have redesigned units, developed policies and processes for triaging patients and allocating resources, updated care pathways and protocols, implemented telemedicine solutions, and supported other specialists who are unable to see patients.
Decreasing Reimbursement Puts Hospital Medicine Services in Serious Jeopardy
Hospitalist and intensivist programs, as well as other acute care specialties like emergency medicine and anesthesia, are facing very significant decreases in the reimbursement received from governmental payers like Medicare and from commercial insurance companies. This is putting the field of hospital medicine and intensivist medicine as well as emergency medicine and anesthesia in serious jeopardy to the degree that we may see closure of hospitals especially in rural areas and deterioration of the safety net that patients depend on for care in these areas. In order to preserve the safety net, reimbursement from commercial insurance companies needs to be reasonable, and reimbursement from governmental payers needs to be preserved or ideally increased.
Working Together to Address the Challenges of Healthcare
In conclusion, it's complex, but in a nutshell, Dr. Kini and I agree that we need to work together to address the challenges of healthcare. We'd like to thank Team Health for sponsoring this episode and encourage listeners to check out the other podcasts from Becker's Healthcare.
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This episode aired on 10/07/2022 and can be listened here.
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