CRC Symposium panelists Hugh Greeley and Todd Sagin, MD, JD, discuss what will differentiate this event from others. The context of credentialing might be an important distinction, as they explain below. The CRC Symposium will take place March 12?13 at Caesar's Palace in Las...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 50
Forty states and Washington, D.C., earned an “F” when graded on how well they provided access to physician quality information, according to a report released by the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
Boston Medical Center and Tufts Medical Center recently confirmed that they are considering a merger. Both hospitals declined to comment on when they might reach an agreement on the merger or how they would implement it.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
Okon Umana, MD, pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid more than $13 million from 2009 to 2012 for physical therapy, diagnostic testing, and other services that were unnecessary or did not actually occur.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 12
Neurophysiological monitoring refers to any measure used to assess the functional integrity of the peripheral or central nervous system. Neurophysiological monitoring can be performed by clinical neurophysiologists or by intraoperative monitoring technologists, and it occurs in the OR, ICU, or...
A large part of establishing privileging guidelines is boiling all the information down to what's most relevant to the unique specifications of the MSP's own facility and then making the best recommendations possible to the departments or service lines, the credentials committee...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 47
A jury has convicted a physician and his clinic administrator on 19 counts of healthcare fraud and a charge of conspiracy for billing Medicare $2.1 million for tests that were never performed.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 45
The hospital system Dignity Health recently agreed to pay the government $37 million to settle allegations it overbilled Medicare from 2006 to 2010 for inpatient care at a dozen of its hospitals that should have been billed as outpatient procedures.
The results are in for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s second Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture. The survey, designed to measure the culture of patient safety in outpatient medical offices, gauges staff and provider attitudes about patient...