Researchers at Kaiser Permanente have shown it's possible to automate collection of data from an electronic health record for public quality reporting. They've also proved that this automation saves money, compared to manual data abstraction. However, their paper in the Journal of the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 1, Issue 11
It is possible that a practitioner simply has not completed enough of a certain procedure in the past two years to be eligible for continued privileges. To avoid denying a practitioner privileges (which must be reported to certain national agencies and will go into a practitioner’s permanent...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 5, Issue 2
CMS has awarded more than $307 million in performance bonuses to 23 states for improving access to children’s health coverage and successfully enrolling eligible children in Medicaid, CMS announced earlier this week. The bonuses were authorized under the Children’s Health Insurance Program...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 2, Issue 14
Hospitals are likely losing money and incurring ill will from patients when they assign them to observation status under Medicare rules, especially if the patient has a general medicine diagnosis, and is female, according to an 18-month study of the practice at a Wisconsin academic medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 4, Issue 14
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday announced “promising” results for the first performance year of the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model, including both higher quality care and lower Medicare expenditures. Costs for the more than 669,000 beneficiaries...
Stakes are high, opinions are divided, and emotions are charged. You are under pressure, possibly stumped, full of adrenaline. Welcome to the world of deeply human conversations as outlined in the seminal work Crucial Conversations, by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al ...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 23
