Requirements that physicians and other healthcare professionals hold licenses in the state in which they provide services have been temporarily waived by the federal government. Yesterday, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar II...
You’ll find immediate opportunity to provide virtual visits to patients enrolled in Medicare plans as CMS seeks to facilitate screening and treatment of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases through telehealth services.
Last week, a lawsuit was filed against Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in West Virginia after several patients died of suspicious means in the same time frame. The family of Felix K. McDermott, who was admitted to the hospital on April 6, 2018 and died on April 9, 2018, alleged that the...
The way your medical staff goes about developing and enforcing a code of conduct policy can affect the policy’s effectiveness. Consider the following dos and...
Yale New Haven Hospital's Late Career Practitioner Policy, which features an assessment of whether clinicians 70 and older are fit to practice medicine independently, has been challenged in federal court.
Like the general population, the proportion of the country's physician workforce...
Most of the bylaws we all operate under are essentially decades old so you're not alone in that regard. However, it is important to review your bylaws annually to make sure they are up to date and still applicable. If a "wholesale review" has not been done in the past five years or more, now is...
In managed care credentialing, delegation is defined as a formal process by which an organization gives another entity the authority and responsibility to perform certain functions on its behalf through a contractual arrangement. For health plans that wish to delegate components of its...
Your medical staff should have a policy that places the burden on the applicant to prove his or her clinical competence and provide all the information the medical staff leaders, credentials committee, MEC, and governing body need to make evidence-based decisions regarding membership and...
In 2019, more than 41 million patient records were breached, nearly tripling the number of breaches from 2018, according to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net.
