On April 12, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed into law senate bill (SB) 1148, which moves to bar healthcare entities in the state from requiring physicians to maintain board certification in order to gain medical licensure, reimbursement, or admitting privileges.
It's impossible to calculate the amount of healthcare fraud that exists, as much of it slips under the radar. However, healthcare fraud poses a serious problem, putting the health and welfare of beneficiaries at risk while costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
The controversial 2-midnight rule may be no more following CMS' release of its latest proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). When it was first put in place for fiscal year 2014, the 2-midnight rule established a benchmark for inpatient admissions where a...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 7
On April 12, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed into law senate bill (SB) 1148, which moves to bar healthcare entities in the state from requiring physicians to maintain board certification in order to gain medical licensure, reimbursement, or admitting privileges. The bill is the latest—and...
A number of articles have been written about bias in peer review?what it is, how it affects the overall peer review process, and types of bias, to name a few. Bias is understandably the stumbling block to effective peer review. It is the one factor that can take a well-meaning committee that is...
The controversial 2-midnight rule may be no more following CMS' release of its latest proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). When it was first put in place for fiscal year 2014, the 2-midnight rule established a benchmark for inpatient admissions where a...
