At the beginning of 2012, New Mexico expanded its state laws regarding reporting settlements, judgments, adverse actions, and credentialing actions to the state medical board to include employed physicians.
Peer review is intended to promote open and honest conversations about the performance of physician peers, with the ultimate goal of promoting patient safety and improving care. The protections offered under the Health care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) allow these reviews to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 22
Patients' opinions of the care they receive can be quite different from the actual quality of the medical care. According to a study conducted by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center, 55% of women treated for early stage breast cancer in New York City...