The California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, reversed a trial court decision and held that a hospital's institutional review board (IRB) is a medical staff committee and is therefore exempt from discovery under California's statutes.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 1
The value of verifying a provider's hospital affiliations was a hot topic at the 2012 NAMSS conference, with multiple references to the immense value of this rather low-yield credentialing tool. Conversely, many MSPs question the value of continuing this industry standard due to...
On November 18, 2011, CMS released a new change to the Conditions of Participation (CoP) and Interpretative Guidelines under Transmittal 72. This transmittal required further clarification following the initial requirement that all rehabilitation and respiratory providers writing...
The guiding coalition at Better Times Hospital has revisited its original proposition, called 3-6-9. The original vision included three medical staff committees (the medical executive committee [MEC], credentials committee, and a single multispecialty peer review committee); six...
The only thing harder than initiating change is sustaining it. It has been six months since Better Times Hospital held its retreat. The task at hand, as noted in John Kotter's Leading Change, is step seven of the eight-step change process: consolidate the gains to date...
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted a study to examine the effect federal fraud and abuse laws have on hospitals' ability to implement financial incentive programs for physicians. Its findings, although not shocking, are notable: The...
The saying "If you build it, they will come," applies to baseball fields and malls, but not CPOE. Getting these systems up and running involves a host of challenges, including cost and IT infrastructure, but the most formidable of those challenges is getting the docs on board...
Travel back 100 years, and you will find William Osler, the "father of modern medicine," writing about the physician-patient relationship. The topic isn't new, but it has come into the spotlight in recent years thanks to patients' demands for a more personalized approach to...
Good things come from hospitalist programs. Well-run hospitalist programs produce shorter lengths of stay, better core measure compliance, and more rapid adoption of order sets and protocols. Primary care physicians (PCP) experience an increase in productivity and income after turning over...
