The Iowa Board of Medicine fined plastic surgeon and hand specialist Rene F. Recinos, MD, PhD, $2,500 for performing trigger release surgery on a patient’s right ring finger instead of the right middle finger. Recinos realized his mistake, informed the patient, and performed the...
The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked CMS to postpone the deadline for physicians and teaching hospitals to register and review the Open Payments system to March 31, 2015.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Arizona-based Carondelet Health Network has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations that two of its hospitals submitted false claims for inpatient rehabilitation services to Medicare and other federal programs from 2004 to 2011.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Community Health Systems (CHS) announced this week that Chinese hackers stole the personal data of 4.5 million patients. The data included Social Security numbers, addresses, birth dates, and phone numbers but did not include medical data or credit card numbers.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
"We tell our patients to avoid stress, to not work too hard, to balance their professional and personal lives. Yet many of us who dole out this advice completely ignore it ourselves."
Robert M. Wachter, MD, discusses advice that physicians give but don't...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Illinois medical regulators have suspended the medical license of psychiatrist Michael Reinstein, who prescribed more of the most powerful and riskiest antipsychotic drug clozapine than any other doctor in the country. The state’s medical disciplinary board recommended the sanction in May...
The growing physician assistant (PA) field has led some medical schools to expand their PA programs in order to offset the looming physician shortage. Northern Arizona University will use a recent $1.5 million grant to expand teaching space for its PA program. Meanwhile, Lynchburg College in...
What are regulators really looking for from your medical staff services department? When CMS seems to want one thing and accreditors want something else, you need to cut through the confusion. Tune in to HCPro’s new webcast “Verify and Comply: Meet Your Top Credentialing Challenges,” on...
