In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-    Understand that Hospital Medicine physicians are part of team, and they should be leaders of the team.
-    Appreciate the need for documentation of Medical Decision Making.
-    Understand the Medicare payment system with need for authorization. 

Robert G. Good, DO, MACOI (he/him/his), Professor of Medicine, Carle Illinois College of Medicine

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-    Discuss the many benefits of POCUS use in all disciplines of medicine for improved speed, accuracy, and patient satisfaction.
-    Analyze ultrasound images and clinical scenarios within the presentation to make proper diagnostic decisions.
-    Utilize techniques such as positioning, devices, and methods to acquire high quality, diagnostic POCUS images.

Peter Bonadonna, Owner and Teaching Faculty, Insonate, LLC

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-    Recognize the possibility for hematologic complications of COVID 19.
-    Implement new approaches to management.
-    Develop strategies for early identification of both bleeding and clotting problems. 

Kevin P. Hubbard, DO, MACOI, Director, Supportive and Palliative Medicine, BJC Health, Western Division

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-    Understand how to classify Pulmonary Embolism.
-    Manage high risk pulmonary embolism patients.
-    Treat IVC filter indications.

Brandon Hooks, DO, FACOI

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-    Apply standard POCUS methods to assure uniformity and reliability between scanners and quality assurance interpreters.
-    Compare ultrasound artifacts and findings that can cause misdiagnosis.
-    Explain the challenges to integrate this new technology into physical exam and patient care. 

Peter Bonadonna, Owner and Teaching Faculty, Insonate, LLC

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-    Discuss the new definition of split shared visits that CMS/Medicare implemented January 1, 2022.   
-    Discuss how this new definition of split shared visits affects teaching physicians.
-    Discuss how the new definition of Split Shared visits affects Critical care visits.

Jill M. Young, CPC, CEDC, CIMC, Principal Consultant, Young Medical Consulting, LLC

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-    Understand the severity of COVID ICU illnesses. 
-    Understand the similarities and differences between other etiologies of ARDS and COVID as an etiology. 
-    Understand Post ICU syndromes and possible rehab. 

Mary R. Suchyta, DO, FACOI, Medical Director, Select Health

In this session, you’ll:
-    Appreciate the need for hospitalists to be part of post-hospital care in future.
-    Understand that Hospitalists play in important role in value-based health care.
-    Understand that Pandemic medicine created changes that will continue into the future. 

John B. Bulger, DO, MBA, MACOI, Chief Medical Officer, Geisinger Health System

Robert G. Good, DO, MACOI (he/him/his), Professor of Medicine, Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Rick A. Greco, DO, MACOI, President of Physician Enterprise, Trinity Health

In this session, you’ll:
-    To help make our Osteopathic Internists more thoughtful, more compassionate, more knowledgeable, and overall uniquely more capable clinicians than their allopathic counterparts .
-    To (hopefully) provide “pearls” useful to the internist in the care of his/her patients with complex or otherwise challenging medical problems.
-    To raise awareness of one of the next big Infectious Disease threats to our vulnerable patients. 

Gerald W. Blackburn, DO, MACOI, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine

L. Bing Liem, DO, FACOI, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco

Robert L. DiGiovanni, DO, MACOI, Rheumatology PD, Associate professor of Medicine, CA Largo Hospital, Morsani College of Medicine

Ella M. Noel, DO, FACOI, Medicare Jurisdiction 8 Contractor Medical Director, Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation

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