Meeting
Abstract Number: 402
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Inter-hospital transfers are integral to a functioning health care network. Critical access, rural, and community hospitals established in sparsely populated territories are unable to support tertiary care infrastructure and rely on academic centers for consultation and transfer. Transfers comprise an estimated 3.5% of inpatient admissions (1), owing in part to increased procedural specialization concentrated […]
Abstract Number: 469
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: At academic institutions and other referral centers the process of accepting transfers from other hospitals has been a challenging and potentially laborious process to coordinate smoothly. It was also one that was not previously reimbursable. However, beginning in 2017 Medicare and other insurance companies began reimbursing Non-Face-to-Face Prolonged services procedural codes. These new codes […]