With just hours before a 21% cut in Medicare payments went into effect, the U.S Senate approved a $145 billion healthcare reform package that repealed the sustainable growth rate (SGR) physician payment formula.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 14
A diagnostic radiologist uses x-rays, radionuclides, ultrasound, and electromagnetic radiation to diagnose and treat disease. According to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), training to become a diagnostic...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 13
Twenty-three people—nine physicians and 14 medical workers—were charged this week in connection with a scam using homeless patients in New York to fraudulently bill Medicaid $7 million for unnecessary tests and products.
The federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) was passed by Congress to extend immunity to good faith peer review of physicians and dentists and to create the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). The statute is located at 42 United States Code section 11101 et seq.
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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 12
A recent report by the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) found that transitioning certain routine business transactions from manual to electronic could result in $8 billion of savings annually for the healthcare industry.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 11
A cyber attack has exposed the medical, personal, and financial records of more than 11 million customers of Premara Blue Cross dating back to 2002. The attack was discovered in January and is believed to have begun in May of 2014.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 10
A Philadelphia jury convicted Padge-Victoria Windslowe, 45, of murder following the death of a dancer who died after having silicone injected in her buttocks.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 3
Physician assistants (PA) in the emergency department (ED) are licensed to practice under physician supervision. According to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), PAs have a number of responsibilities in the ED, including out-of-hospital patient care, patient triage, patient...
The Supreme Court of North Carolina (the "Court") affirmed a decision by the North Carolina Court of Appeals that certain documents requested by a plaintiff-patient suing a hospital for negligence were not protected from discovery by the state's peer review privilege statute.
