The Medical Board of California is asking physicians who need to renew their medical licenses during October and November to do so early due to a planned disruption. According to the medical board, the Department of Consumer Affairs is currently transitioning to a new online licensing and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
A resident-led quality improvement incentive program significantly reduced unnecessary laboratory tests at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. In one year of study, neurosurgical trainees found a 47% reduction in testing, which led to a savings of $1.7 million in billable...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 41
A state investigation has determined that two nurses at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt., failed to provide proper care for a patient who arrived complaining of back pain and subsequently died in the emergency room. The patient was found dead by a non-clinical staff member...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 39
Millions of Americans visited new online health insurance exchanges as enrollment opened on Tuesday, suggesting a broad national appetite for the affordable coverage touted under the Affordable Care Act of 2010. But many people quickly encountered technological problems that prevented them from...
Medical staff offices (MSO) are an intense hub of activity, and if the MSO is incorporated into a hospital's medical affairs office, the hub of activity increases exponentially. How the medical affairs department views the MSO's departmental position in the organization can be as positively...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 36
Cozby-Germany Hospital in Grand Saline, Texas, shut down last week, leaving rural Van Zandt County with no hospital as fallout continued from the collapse of Dr. Tariq Mahmood’s healthcare chain. New physician-managers took over after Mahmood’s company was evicted in July, but did not promptly...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 35
Female physicians in the U.S. continue to earn less than their male counterparts, with the pay gap widening during the past two decades to more than $50,000 annually in 2010, according to a report published in JAMA Internal Medicine last week.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 31
The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative has announced a primer for hospitals and healthcare systems as they transition to value-based contracting arrangements. “In the evolving business model, hospitals, healthcare systems, physician groups and other...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 8
I knew I had a problem when my hallway greetings of "good morning" were replaced with "Did you read my email?" My email messages were long, difficult to respond to, and filled with unnecessary details. It's no wonder that I had to send multiple requests and follow-up emails when...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 25
Don Berwick, a former Obama administration health official, announced Monday that he is running for governor of Massachusetts. Berwick, a Democrat, is a physician and health policy expert who ran the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a recess appointee, but Republicans...
