Pediatric Committee – Member Articles


Pediatric Malnutrition: A Documentation Imperative with Financial Consequences
June 2025 | Samantha Dallefeld, MD, ACPA-C & Jennifer Goodrich, MD, ACPA-C

Are Your NICU Admissions a Little Bundle of a Great Improvement Opportunity?
August 2024 | Alyssa A. Riley, MD, MEd, FAAP

What Does Language Equity Have to Do with Physician Advisors? More Than You May Think
June 2024 | Victoria A. Rodriguez, MD & Denise M. Goodman, MD

The Fast and the Furious: Pediatric Illness and Inpatient Statusing
February 2024 | Alyssa A. Riley, MD, MEd, FAAP

Strategies, Trends, and Challenges: AHA's Washington, D.C. Summit Recap
November 2023 | Jerilyn Morrissey, MD

Rebooting “Observing the Rules for Observation After Outpatient Surgery”
October 2023 | Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD

Pediatric Physician Advisors – A Commonly Missed Key to Healthy Hospital Operations
September 2023 | Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD

Pediatric Physician Advisors – No Longer an Option for Healthy Hospital Operations
September 2023 | Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD

Navigating Social Hospitalizations
September 2023 | Tiffany Ferguson, LMSW, CMAC, ACM & Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD

Getting Down to Brass Tacks with Providers About Documentation
July 2023 | Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD

Medical Necessity: Realities and Hypotheticals
May 2023 | Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD

Hail the Return of the Three-Midnight Rule
April 2023 | Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD

Hail the Return of the Three-Midnight Rule
April 2023 | Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD

Transfer Requests at the Intersection of EMTALA
March 2023 | Scott Ceule, MD, FACP, FAAP

NICU Baby Listed as “Self-Pay”: You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
January 2023 | Sumana Narasimhan, MD & Rhiana Lau, MD, FAAP

Why Being Too Big to Fail is a Problem for Providers
December 2022 | Jerilyn Morrissey

NICU Baby Listed as “Self-Pay”: You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
February 2022 | Sumana Narasimhan, MD, FAAP & Rhiana Lau, MD, FAAP

Academics and the Physician Advisor
January 2022 | Denise Goodman

Rising Pediatric Behavioral Health Admissions and Associated Challenges Faced by Physician Advisors and Pediatric Hospitals 
October 2021 | Sophia Sterner, MD FAAP

Birth Announcement
September 2021 | Barbara Abrams, MD & Denise Goodman, MD, MS, FCCM

Children with Medical Complexity – Making it Simple 
June 2021 | Denise Goodman, MS, RN, RRT

Documentation of the Patient's Plan of Care
December 2020 | Mary McLaughlin Davis, DNP, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC, CCM 

Non-Update on CMS Pay for Performance Programs and Inpatient Quality Reporting
November 2020 | Edward Hu, MD

What if You Didn't Know?
September 2020 | Barbara Abrams

Preparing for the Test
April 2020 | Edward Hu, MD

Helping Hospitals Survive
September 2019 | Mary McLaughlin Davis, DNP, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC, CCM 

Is It Time to Re-Think Readmission Penalties?
May 2019 | Rishi Garg

Post-Acute Waivers Urgently Needed
November 2018 | Edward Hu, MD

Understanding the Clinical Diagnosis of Sepsis-3
November 2018 | Edward Hu, MD