The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights director Leon Rodriguez announced the termination of Medicaid funding to a California surgeon who intentionally discriminated against an HIV-positive patient by refusing to perform much needed back surgery. An order,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 29
In a recent survey assessing U.S. physicians’ attitudes toward and perceived role in addressing healthcare costs, physicians reported having some responsibility to address healthcare costs in their practice and expressed general agreement about several quality initiatives to reduce cost....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 29
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week announced the allocation of $12 million in Affordable Care Act funding to support primary care residency programs in 32 health centers across the nation.
A Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) team is studying the details and implications of interstate compacts for physician licensure. These compacts could streamline licensing procedures for physicians who seek to practice in more than one state—possibly simplifying license verification in...
Within minutes of the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight carrying 307 passengers at San Francisco International Airport, employees at Stanford University Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., prepared to execute their long-rehearsed “mass casualty plan,”...
Several Nevada hospitals were found to have “inappropriately transferred” patients to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC) in Las Vegas, a state investigation found. UMC officials believe many of the patients transferred there—supposedly in need of a specialist—did not actually...
