A medical practice’s success can hinge on the culture of its team. The culture—the set of underlying rules and beliefs—of successful practices encourage members to interact with each other and patients. The AMA’s STEPS Forward website, which provides free online modules to help physicians...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 40
A vast majority of physician leaders support improving the value of healthcare by increasing quality while lowering costs, according to a survey conducted by the American Association for Physician Leaders (AAPL) and the Navigant Center for Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis. The survey,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
Today marks the start of using ICD-10 codes—a long anticipated change in the healthcare community. Physicians will have to use these new diagnostic codes in order to get properly reimbursed from CMS and private payers. Medicare claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, will be...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 10
By Rick Sheff, MD, principal and chief medical officer, The Greeley Company
Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, chief credentialing officer, The Greeley Company
Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, advisory consultant, The Greeley Company
Is there a balance between confidential peer review and keeping administration informed of actions taken against employed physicians? William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE, lays out your options.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 38
Disruptive behavior from physicians has become a topic of conversation after a recent court case that awarded a colonoscopy patient $500,000 after he recorded his anesthesiologist making disparaging remarks about him during the procedure. Disruptive behavior can also lead to bad patient outcomes...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
With patient satisfaction surveys factoring more heavily into Medicare payments, hospitals are making more of an effort to improve the bedside manner of its physicians. Research has shown that hospitals that encourage physicians to be more responsive to patients are more likely to have higher...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
The University of Utah Health Care is crediting a program that provides the cost of doing business for helping it to reduce its expenses over the past few year. While other academic hospitals in the area have seen costs increase an average of 2.9%, the University of Utah has had its costs...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 35
Two pilot programs launching this month as a collaboration between the UCLA Center for Prehospital Care, the Los Angeles Country Emergency Medical Services agency, and the Glendale and Santa Monica fire departments will expand the roles of paramedics in hopes of reducing hospital readmissions...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 9
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 others look for alternative certification options. One created an alternative board for physician certification, The National Board of...
