The Joint Commission last week announced revisions to its medical staff standards for hospitals and critical-access hospitals. The changes align with CMS’ revised Conditions of Participation (CoPs) announced in May, and address medical staff structure for multihospital systems;...
A well-trained medical staff leader is vital to the culture of a hospital’s medical staff and can save a hospital from the expense of lawsuits affiliated with negligent credentialing/peer review. But great physicians don’t always make great leaders.
Demand for alternative therapies is on the rise, and while some practitioners remain skeptical, many physicians have embraced the need for more research. Not so fast, says Brian Goldman, MD, in his White Coat, Black Art blog. Goldman cited a Trends in Molecular Medicine article...
I thought about work while I was on vacation last week: I wondered, “When CRC readers get a break, what do they do?” Our most recent MSP Salary Survey found that 50% of respondents handle credentialing and privileging for as many as 400 practitioners, and 21% reported that their department...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
A report by Moody’s Investor Service showed that the income for nonprofit hospitals declined for the second year in row in 2013, while the median revenue growth fell to the lowest percentage since the agency began tracking it 23 years ago.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently announced that it has decreased its 10-year projected cost of Medicare and Medicaid by $89 billion due to reduced medical services and labor costs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
For the second year in row, the average physician turnover rate remained at 6.8 percent for 2013, according to a survey by the American Medical Group Association (AMGA). The rate is the highest on record since the AMGA began tracking it in 2005.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
“The difficulty of getting into medical school ensures that most doctors are people who naturally drive themselves very hard and demand excellence from themselves and everyone around them.”
Henry M. Kuerer, MD, PhD, FACS, discusses the causes of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
I recently read a CNN article about researchers developing a surgical “black box” for the operating room, similar to those found in airplanes. The black box would use cameras to...
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...
