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In recent years, it has become common for patients to sue a hospital for negligent peer review when they bring a malpractice action against a physician. Their claim generally is that inadequate medical staff monitoring of an incompetent physician allowed a bad outcome in their care. These are...
Between 2010 and 2016, the wage gap between male and female physicians in New York has more than doubled, despite the growing number of women entering the profession. According to research done by the University of Albany, male physicians went from earning $11,931 more than their female...
"[W]hen he was renewing his … staff privileges, a secretary noticed that he had never recertified in family medicine. He argued that 26 years of an unblemished record, getting 50 credits of CME per year, and having no patient complaints should be enough to have his privileges continued."...
The Kentucky Supreme Court (the “Court”) recently reversed a Court of Appeals ruling that would have allowed patients to sue hospitals for negligent credentialing of non-employee physicians who are given staff privileges. The Court’s decision strikes down negligent credentialing as a separate...
“Sometimes you are part of the decision process, and other times the decision is simply handed down. Either way, you are now responsible for ensuring that the plan is carried out.”
With the passage of the Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act last week, physician assistants (PA) will now be able to serve as the attending physician for terminally ill hospice care Medicare patients. Previously, Medicare would only allow physicians and nurse practitioners to serve as hospice...
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