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.
After resigning from Disjointed Hospital following her nine-month traumatic employment process, Dr. Young seeks employment at Coordinated Hospital. On her first visit, the physician recruiter informs her that some background information will be verified by the medical staff services department (...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 34
A new AMA report examined how non-solo physicians were being paid and found that just over half received compensation by multiple methods. Of those methods, salary and productivity-based payments were the most common with 61% and 53.5% respectively.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 33
In recent years, many hospitals have adopted communication policies that allow and encourage physicians to apologize to patients when they make a mistake. According to Modern Healthcare, “such initiatives have led to improved transparency and better physician-patient relationships, as...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 32
Due to a proposed change to the two-midnight rule, CMS has further delayed enforcement of the policy through the end of the year. An enforcement delay passed by Congress was set to expire on September 30.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 31
Fifty-five percent of physician leaders believe the Affordable Care Act has more good in it than bad, according to a survey conducted by the American Association for Physician Leadership and the Navigant Center for Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis.
The ease of your credentialing process will either attract physicians or send them running, says William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE. The structure of separate departments for physician recruiting, human resources, physician practice management, medical staff services, and physician...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 8
Littleton (New Hampshire) Regional Healthcare relies on locum tenens physicians to augment its permanent medical staff. The facility doesn't have much choice, says Julie Hatley, CPMSM, CPCS, manager of medical staff services at the 25-bed critical access hospital. "We're a small...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 30
The AMA is encouraging physicians to share their stories about their experiences with EHRs and Meaningful Use by posting on a new website created for this purpose.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 29
