Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that remove criminal sanctions for the medical use of marijuana, define eligibility for such use, and allow some means of access. Three more—Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania—have pending medical marijuana legislation or...
Is your organization looking for family medicine practitioners or internal medicine physicians? Wondering why the search is taking so long? Merritt Hawkins’ “2014 Review Of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” spots some interesting trends that might already be...
A surgeon with an alleged history of bad behavior must pay a nurse $5,000 in compensatory damages and $35,000 for punitive damages after kicking her and leaving a bruise, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled. The court upheld a previous decision that ordered cardiothoracic surgeon Robert T. Fried...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
Medicaid patients who visit the emergency department (ED) are seeking treatment for urgent and serious problems, according to a new report from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
According to an analysis by Modern Healthcare, using the most recent salary figures from 2012, the total cash compensation of 147 non-profit hospital CEOs increased an average of 24% from the previous year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ordered cardiothoracic surgeon Robert T. Fried, MD, to pay $40,000 to a nurse at King’s Daughter Medical Center (KDMC) in Ashland, Kentucky, who sued him for assault and battery.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
“Every day clinicians yell at nurses. They bully, they prod, they rush off the phone before fully answering questions. I have done it many times myself. The phenomena is so common that most nurses and secretaries accept it as part of the job.”
Jordan Grumet...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
This week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider features a piece about a surgeon ordered to pay $40,000 to a nurse for kicking her. From the nurse’s testimony, the surgeon had a history of this type of behavior. I don’t work in a hospital so maybe I’m a little out...
A significant portion of updates in the Fiscal Year 2015 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) final rule pertain to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, and the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program.
A National Bureau of Economic Research paper contends that “cowboy” physicians—those who deviate from professional guidelines, and often providing more aggressive care than is recommended—are responsible for a significant portion of U.S. health costs. The paper concludes that “36% of end-of-...
