Your Expert Presenter:

David Zetter, PHR, CHCC, CHCO, CPC, CPC-H, PCS, FCS, CHBC

David Zetter is a consultant with Health Care Professional Management Services in Mechanicsburg, PA. The firm serves 150 physicians and dentists in PA, VA, MD and NY. David, who is a member of the National Society of Certified Healthcare Business Consultants, assists practices with a range of activities, including business start-up, strategic planning and billing and reimbursement.

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Hospitalists pose opportunities and threats to physician practices, and there are more of them every year.

The number of hospitalists in practice is projected to hit 30,000 in 2010, up from just a few hundred in 1996. What does this trend mean for you?

Some of your peers are quitting outpatient services for lucrative hospitalist work. Others are designating a staff physician to act as the practice’s hospitalist and to do all rounds; some are leaving their inpatient work to the hospitalists and others are trying not to lose the care of their patients to a hospital-based hospitalist.

This is your opportunity to wrap yourself around all the various issues affecting practices and inpatient hospitalist care. Register today for this audio conference and find out…

• The pros and cons of employing a hospitalist or working with your hospital’s hospitalist.
• Issues to consider if a hospital seeks to contract with your group to provide hospitalist services.
• How to set up a hospitalist practice.
• Common billing headaches to avoid – to help reduce denials when your practice rounds for an inpatient who’s also under the care of a hospitalist.
• Strategies to better coordinate care between the primary care physician and the hospitalist.
• Tips to avoid losing the care of your patient to a hospitalist, and how hospital bylaws often complicate this risk.
• Examples of how to bill certain inpatient care scenarios.

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