The Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) is pilot testing an international partnership that aims to enhance and simplify the process of medical elective exchanges for medical schools and students worldwide. Using the Global Education in Medicine Exchange (GEMx) system,...
During the American Medical Association (AMA) interim meeting this week, members of the AMA House of Delegates adopted two policies to address the changing nature of U.S. medical residencies. One of the new policies asks the AMA to study the effect of ever-increasing Match participants against...
A U.S. District Court judge in Newark, N.J., this week sentenced a former physician to six and a half years in federal prison for fraudulently diagnosing patients with heart ailments and ordering them to undergo unnecessary tests. The physician reportedly defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and private...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 46
WESTMED Medical Group, a 260-physician group practice, launched an accountable care organization (ACO) with Unitedhealth and its Optum medical services platform, and more than 13,000 individuals in March 2012. Since then, the physician-led ACO has earned nearly $1 million in performance bonuses...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 46
The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates this week adopted recommendations for creating payment structures for physician-led team care delivery models with physicians determining who gets paid and how much. However, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) calls...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 46
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors has approved charters for two new advisory committees required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The PCORI Advisory Panel on Rare Disease and the Advisory Panel on Clinical Trials will begin meeting next spring...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 46
Legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives last week aims to improve access to telehealth services for active-duty military, retired veterans, and their dependents by expanding reimbursement to providers. HR 3507—which initially was co-sponsored by California Democratic Reps....
CMS has launched the Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) to meet the rising demand for timelier Medicare and Medicaid data. Historically, CMS filled researchers’ data requests by preparing and shipping encrypted data files. Now, researchers can use the VRDC to access CMS data from their own...
