Background: For academic hospital medicine groups to thrive and be partners with their hospital systems, physicians must document and bill appropriately as a means of demonstrating their clinical value. Yet, many major academic hospital medicine groups may be unaware or receive little training for this very important skill set. Based on data from the Society […]

Case Presentation: A 65‐year‐old man with a medical history of hypertension, tobacco use, a recent L3–L5 laminectomy, and posterior spinal fusion was hospitalized with fever, dyspnea, and pleuritic chest pain of 2 days' duration. A month prior to this admission he had q laminectomy with spinal fusion that was later complicated by MRSA wound infection. […]