Updating threshold-based identification of hospitalists in 2012 Medicare pay data
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Josh Boswell; Luci K. Leykum; Joshua Lapps; Luigi Haines; Bradley Flansbaum
- Source
- Journal of hospital medicine. 11(1)
- Subject
- Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
medicine.medical_specialty
Actuarial science
Leadership and Management
business.industry
Health Policy
010102 general mathematics
General Medicine
Assessment and Diagnosis
Medicare
01 natural sciences
United States
Unique identifier
03 medical and health sciences
Identification (information)
0302 clinical medicine
Hospitalists
Family medicine
medicine
Fundamentals and skills
030212 general & internal medicine
0101 mathematics
business
Care Planning
- Language
- ISSN
- 1553-5606
In the absence of a unique identifier, it is difficult to assess the number of practicing hospitalists. We use a variety of thresholds of billing activity to identify hospitalists in a dataset of publicly released 2012 Medicare physician pay data. Our study updates previous estimates of the number of hospitalists practicing nationwide in 2012 and suggests the field continues to grow. This research also highlights a need for a more precise system of identifying hospitalists.