Physician Retraining & Reentry (PRR) announced this week its online program--created in collaboration with the University of California San Diego School of Medicine faculty--to retrain retired and inactive physicians to practice general medicine at understaffed health centers.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 20
Officials from several health centers, multi-group practices, insurers, and physician groups nationwide reported that the 13 million newly insured under the Affordable Care Act have not caused major delays with receiving medical care. Due to three years advance notice, many health providers were...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 20
The National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) has released its Ideal Credentialing Standards (ICS), a list of 13 criteria for establishing an applicant’s qualifications for medical staff membership and clinical privileges.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 20
May 11-17 is National Hospital Week, celebrating the institutions and their cadre of professionals dedicated to patient care. Hospitals and medical staff services are certainly in the spotlight. In the past week, CMS has finalized CoPs for medical staff structures in hospital...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 20
Multi-hospital systems will be allowed to use a unified and integrated medical staff structure, according to revised Conditions of Participation (CoP) published this week by the CMS.
Hospitals have increasingly acquired physician practices during the past decade, arguing that doing so helps them coordinate care and control costs. However, when hospitals buy physician practices, the result is usually higher hospital prices and increased spending by privately insured...
