The Ohio House recently passed a bill aiming to authorize eligible physician assistants to write prescriptions. According to the legislation, a physician assistant could be granted authority to write prescriptions if he or she holds a master’s degree or higher; or had prescriptive authority in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 21
Creating a new position to assume a physician’s documentation duties may lead to better patient care and satisfaction, according to a University of California study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 21
The salaries of insurance and hospital executives frequently far exceed those of highly trained physicians, according to an analysis recently published by The New York Times.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 21
It’s my pleasure to introduce myself as the new editor of Medical Staff Leader Insider. For those of you interested in my background, I’m a graduate of the University of Rhode Island’s journalism program and I’ve previously worked as a reporter for several newspapers...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 21
While overall electronic health record (EHR) adoption is up nationally, many physicians are finding it difficult to meet the CMS’ rules pertaining to meaningful use—how well a provider uses EHR technology—especially when it comes to sharing data.
The National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) has released the Ideal Credentialing Standards (ICS), a list of 13 criteria for establishing an applicant’s qualifications for medical staff membership and clinical privileges.
Despite dire predictions, the nation’s primary care system is handling the increased number of insured patients without major problems so far, according to interviews with community health centers, large physician practices, and insurers nationwide. Five months in, with about 13...
Physicians in danger of burning out, who are tied to hospital care due to the nature of their specialty (surgeons, intensivists, anesthesiologists, etc.), may find relief by working as a locum tenens hospital-based physician, writes Val Jones, MD, in a recent KevinMD post. But...
Multi-hospital systems will be allowed to use a unified and integrated medical staff structure, according to revised Conditions of Participation (CoP) published this week by the CMS. The organization cited the lack of evidence that a unified medical staff model is detrimental to...
May 11-17 is National Hospital Week, celebrating the institutions and their cadre of professionals dedicated to patient care. Hospitals and medical staff services are certainly in the spotlight. In the past week, CMS has finalized CoPs for medical staff structures in hospital...
