The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA) this week announced their approval of CMS’ recommended expansion of telemedicine coverage for Medicare beneficiaries. The AHA and ATA separately addressed the possible telemedicine expansion in CMS’ proposed...
Nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) were originally envisioned to provide primary care services in underserved areas. To gauge NP and PA activity in non-primary care roles, Brett Coldiron, MD, and Mondhipa Ratnarathorn, MD, studied the scope of independent procedural...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 36
To help reduce the number of appeals over short-term inpatient stay claims, CMS announced a proposed settlement to pay hospitals a portion of what they claim they are owed.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 36
“The voice of clinicians can be profound, particularly if our sincere goal is improving care for patients. People will hear what we say. They will listen and be affected.”
John Haughom, MD, urges clinicians to be leaders in transforming healthcare in a blog post on
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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 36
You’ll notice this week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider is dominated by CMS news. Most of it was announced last Friday just as many of us were probably gearing up for the holiday weekend, but now that we’re all back to work, it’s time to...
Physicians in states with disclose, apology and offer (DA&O) laws must still have payouts made on their behalf reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the ruling in May, but few knew about it until mid-August when...
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...
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.
