The Illinois Supreme Court (the "Court") recently upheld an appellate court's decision that two hospitals had to turn over a physician's staff privilege applications to the plaintiffs suing for negligent credentialing because the documents are not privileged under the Health Care Professional...
How many stacks of papers are currently on your desk? How much time do you spend searching through mounds of paper looking for one specific document? How much time and money does your department spend preparing and mailing documents each month? How much time do you spend filing papers, printing...
The fear of lawsuits runs deep in many facilities, and although MSPs are very rarely named as defendants, they play a crucial role in making sure lawsuits from physicians don't derail credentialing, privileging, and peer review processes.
Last spring the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) updated its guidelines for the first time in more than 10 years. The following questions and answers are from the recent HCPro webcast, FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How to Address New Reporting Challenges, presented by...
Maintenance of certification (MOC) has become the focus of many physicians; as some question its relevance, others offer opinions on ways to make it better, and still others look for alternative certification options
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (the "Court") rejected a hospital's argument that the state's peer review statute applied to electronic medical record audit trails.
The Supreme Court of Michigan (the Court), reversing the decision of a trial court, held that objective facts contained in an incident report are protected by the state's peer review statute.
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey - Camden (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, granted defendants' motion to dismiss a surgeon's claims of antitrust violations, civil rights violations, and unfair competition.
