The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established the Conditions of Participation (CoP), which are the absolute minimum set of requirements that all hospitals must meet to participate in federal payment programs. CoP s require that there be an organized...
Overreacting to a letter of complaint from a member of your medical staff may simply exacerbate a situation. Consider the following: A frustrated medical staff member writes a long letter to the chief of staff demanding that the medical staff bylaws be amended to eliminate the malpractice...
A New Jersey physician faces four-to-nine years in prison after pleading guilty this week to second-degree manslaughter in the fentanyl-related overdose death of a patient.
Under a plea deal reached with ...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 8
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Appellate District of California (the “Court”) upheld a trial court’s denial of Riverside County’s (the “County”) special motion to strike the Respondents’ pleading, finding that the activity in question was not considered protected speech, and...
