Physician Retraining & Reentry (PRR) announced this week its online program--created in collaboration with the University of California San Diego School of Medicine faculty--to retrain retired and inactive physicians to practice general medicine at understaffed health centers.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 20
Officials from several health centers, multi-group practices, insurers, and physician groups nationwide reported that the 13 million newly insured under the Affordable Care Act have not caused major delays with receiving medical care. Due to three years advance notice, many health providers were...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 20
The National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) has released its Ideal Credentialing Standards (ICS), a list of 13 criteria for establishing an applicant’s qualifications for medical staff membership and clinical privileges.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 20
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...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 20
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.
Core Privileges for Physicians, Sixth Edition is on its way! This updated, comprehensive resource contains over 75 physician specialty and subspecialty forms, along with nearly 40 procedure lists corresponding to the specialties and subspecialties. Feel confident knowing the criteria...
By the time James King, a former physician living in Billings, Montana, filed his taxes, his identity had already been stolen. As a consequence, his return was rejected, he said. A growing number of physicians across the country have reported being victimized by what appears to be the same...
With the changing demographics of the hospital medical staff comes growing challenges. Now HCPro is offering a pair of resources to help you address these challenges. Next week you’ll have an opportunity to get answers to your questions about aging physicians, assessment, and fair policies....
Hospitals have increasingly acquired physician practices during the past decade, arguing that doing so helps them coordinate care and control costs. However, when hospitals buy physician practices, the result is usually higher hospital prices and increased spending by privately insured...
A provision in CMS’ new rule to modify or eliminate unnecessary regulations will ease requirements for physicians in small Critical Access Hospitals (CAH), as well as Rural Health Clinics (RHC) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), according to the agency. Part II of CMS’ Regulatory...
