"Continue to monitor," states the minutes of the surgical department meeting. "Tell the nursing supervisor to keep her eyes open," says the department chair. When a particular physician's name comes up yet again at the medical executive committee meeting, all eyes immediately began scanning the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 30
The number of Americans having weight-loss surgery more than quadrupled between 1998 and 2002 from 13,386 to 71,733, according to a study published in the July 12 issue of Health Affairs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 26
On June 21, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will begin to implement the revised classification criteria used to determine inpatient hospital rehabilitation payment it adopted in a May 7, 2004 ruling. In January 2005, the rule was suspended by CMS after...