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
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...
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez plans to ask the state legislature to provide $220,000 next year for marketing directed at nurse practitioners (NPs) to sell them on the advantages of New Mexico, which allows them more independence in providing medical care than many other states, including...
From advanced practice professionals to telemedicine providers, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment Challenges will walk you through every step of collecting adequate performance data to assess practitioner competence. This book addresses many of the common...
