Maintenance of certification (MOC) exam scores are falling: First-time pass rates for those who re-certified in internal medicine have declined from 90% in 2009 to 78% in 2013, Kevin Pho, MD, wrote on the KevinMD blog earlier this week. Pho cited two possible reasons for this drop. The first...
Physician payment transparency was a hot topic this week, with the release of a year’s worth of Medicare payment data. With that in mind, I ran some more early numbers from the MSP Salary Survey. This survey is still open, so these results may shift somewhat, but a clearer picture is...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 15
Healthcare facilities in Western and upstate New York are facing a shortage of physicians, and it’s particularly challenging to recruit primary care physicians (PCP), according to a survey by the Hospital Association of New York State (HANYS). The survey reports that 123 more physicians in the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 15
The MSP Salary Survey is still open, so these results may shift somewhat, but a clearer salary picture is emerging as MSPs weigh in. Early unofficial tabulation shows California has the most MSPs making more than $100,000, by a margin of more than 2 to 1 compared to other states. So far, 29% of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 15
Long shifts and lack of sleep among medical residents led the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to restrict work hours in 2003 and again in 2011. However, restrictions on work hours for surgeons-in-training may have backfired, according to a new review that found...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 15
The AMA announced earlier this week it won’t try to block Medicare’s release of billing records for 880,000 physicians, although it continues to oppose the government’s decision to open up the massive data trove. An AMA official, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Associated Press that the...
The biggest challenges to widespread mobile health adoption in the United States are reimbursement and lack of regulatory clarification. However, despite these challenges, the mobile health industry is expected to experience tremendous growth over the next few years and address many of the...
The latest Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Experience Report shows significant increases in participation in two voluntary programs. More than 430,000 professionals participated in the PQRS and more than 340,000 in the eRx programs, according to...
This Editor’s Note is from a blog by William F. Mills, MD, MMM, CPE, FACPE, FAAFP, senior vice president of quality and professional affairs for Upper Allegheny Health System and co-author of The Medical...
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