I recently read a CNN article about researchers developing a surgical “black box” for the operating room, similar to those found in airplanes. The black box would use cameras to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked CMS to postpone the deadline for physicians and teaching hospitals to register and review the Open Payments system to March 31, 2015.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Arizona-based Carondelet Health Network has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations that two of its hospitals submitted false claims for inpatient rehabilitation services to Medicare and other federal programs from 2004 to 2011.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Community Health Systems (CHS) announced this week that Chinese hackers stole the personal data of 4.5 million patients. The data included Social Security numbers, addresses, birth dates, and phone numbers but did not include medical data or credit card numbers.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
"We tell our patients to avoid stress, to not work too hard, to balance their professional and personal lives. Yet many of us who dole out this advice completely ignore it ourselves."
Robert M. Wachter, MD, discusses advice that physicians give but don't...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Medicaid patients who visit the emergency department (ED) are seeking treatment for urgent and serious problems, according to a new report from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
According to an analysis by Modern Healthcare, using the most recent salary figures from 2012, the total cash compensation of 147 non-profit hospital CEOs increased an average of 24% from the previous year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ordered cardiothoracic surgeon Robert T. Fried, MD, to pay $40,000 to a nurse at King’s Daughter Medical Center (KDMC) in Ashland, Kentucky, who sued him for assault and battery.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
“Every day clinicians yell at nurses. They bully, they prod, they rush off the phone before fully answering questions. I have done it many times myself. The phenomena is so common that most nurses and secretaries accept it as part of the job.”
