Banning handshakes from healthcare settings may help reduce spreading disease, according to a recent editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 27
The Federation of State Medical Boards has drafted an interstate compact to make it easier for physicians to practice in multiple states. The proposal could lead to increased use of telemedicine, which may help mitigate the nation’s physician shortage.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 27
In this week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider, I’ve included a piece about a proposal on banning handshakes in healthcare settings. Citing the low rates of hand washing program compliance, the authors suggest the ban to reduce the spread of disease. How can I not address this?...
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Wisconsin’s bid to begin enforcing a state law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, while a legal fight over the law plays out in lower federal courts. A federal judge is weighing a challenge to the law from Parent...
Listen to health officials and you'll believe that tort reform—essentially, limits on individuals’ right to sue when they’re allegedly harmed receiving care—is necessary to stem the rising cost of healthcare. While it is true that healthcare costs continue to rise (but not as much as in the...
Analysis of recently released Medicare data has gleaned some interesting findings—a significant number of physicians with “unusual” Medicare billing patterns have been disciplined by their state medical boards or have had challenges to their licenses. The...
Medical inflation is expected to rise to 6.8% in 2015, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Hospitals paying more to acquire physician practices, and health IT integration investments for large-scale hospital integration and mergers, will play a major role in the increase...
Propublica, dissecting data released by Medicare on payments made to health professionals in 2012, has uncovered some patterns in the data, the news outlet reported this week. Among its findings: Physicians with unusual billing patterns often have been disciplined by their state medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 26
With the changing demographics of the hospital medical staff comes growing challenges to collecting and assessing information on physician competence. Physician reentry, new procedures and technologies, low- and no-volume physicians, are just some of the issues medical staffs have to work...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 26
The number of medical malpractice lawsuits has dropped significantly in Pennsylvania over the past decade, according to statistics released by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC).
