Business of Medicine/Practice Management

Abstract

Session Description: This program will describe the otolaryngology hospitalist-surgeonist as an emerging practice paradigm, compare the implementation at several academic institutions, and discuss the benefits and challenges of the paradigm and its future. The hospitalist model is well established in medicine, and in recent years this model has been adopted by specialty fields. The hospitalist model is particularly relevant to the surgical specialist, for whom the need is often urgent or emergent and whose availability is often limited by an elective practice, potentially on another campus. In 2011 the first otolaryngology hospitalist program was implemented, and since that time, the paradigm has been applied at several institutions in varying forms, including that of a surgeonist. What does an otolaryngology hospitalist-surgeonist do? Does your institution need one? How do you implement and integrate the hospitalist-surgeonist? Who benefits from this model? Come learn from our panelists who established the inaugural services at 4 academic institutions. New this year, how does the otolaryngology hospitalist-surgeonist improve patient care and decrease provider risk during COVID? How does the billing work and is this financially feasible? Outcome Objectives: (1) Understand what an otolaryngology hospitalist-surgeonist does in different practice settings. (2) Implement an otolaryngology hospitalist-surgeonist in a hospital or academic system. (3) Navigate the system-based practice hurdles of the otolaryngology hospitalist-surgeonist model.