With the rise of healthcare services outside traditional hospital settings, outpatient practitioner credentialing and peer review are challenging medical staff services departments nationwide. We spoke with 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium presenter Todd Sagin, MD, JD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 2
Following is an excerpt from the updated Clinical Privilege White Paper, Medical toxicology–Practice area 405. See the Credentialing Resource Center website for additional new or updated white papers.
Last time, we saw Dr. Young experience double jeopardy following a patient complaint. Her employer wrote her up and threatened to terminate her if another incident occurred. The medical staff president gave her a slap on the wrist and said, "Try not to do it again." Dr. Young is rightfully...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 3
The former CEO of Architrave Health has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was fired for reporting $10 million dollars in fraudulent Medicare payments. Robert Dannenhoffer, MD, claims he was fired last February after insisting that Architrave self-report inflated Medicare payments to CMS.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 3
Dermatologists are the happiest of all physicians, according to the results of Medscape’s 2016 Lifestyle Report, which surveyed nearly 16,000 physicians nationwide. Thirty-nine percent of dermatologists reported being very or extremely happy at work. They were followed by ophthalmologists with...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 2
This week, Medicare officials announced the creation of 121 new accountable care organizations (ACO). Almost 8.9 million Medicare beneficiaries will now be getting their care through ACOs, an increase of about 1 million beneficiaries receiving care under this model. ACOs are hoped to improve...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 1
Granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without fully verifying their credentials can put healthcare organizations and their patients in danger—clinically and legally. Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, advisory consultant and the chief credentialing officer for The Greeley...
Part 8: Bylaws and employment agreements--perfect together?
Are employed physicians held to the standards of the medical staff bylaws? Where does an employment contract fit into this situation? William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE, tackles this challenging issue.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
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