Eight employees, former patients and visitors have filed a negligence lawsuit seeking damages from a Las Vegas hospital where they say they were exposed to a woman and at least one newborn baby with tuberculosis. The civil lawsuit filed Monday in Nevada state court alleges that administrators at...
A U.S. District Court judge in Newark, N.J., this week sentenced a former physician to six and a half years in federal prison for fraudulently diagnosing patients with heart ailments and ordering them to undergo unnecessary tests. The physician reportedly defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and private...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 46
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors has approved charters for two new advisory committees required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The PCORI Advisory Panel on Rare Disease and the Advisory Panel on Clinical Trials will begin meeting next spring...
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...
