Medicine lags behind the law by several decades, but it is proceeding down the same path, wrote Richard Gunderman MD, PhD, and Mark Mutz in a recent opinion story in TheAtlantic. Rankings are playing an increasing role in how medical schools and hospitals assess their performance...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 8
In 2008 the predicted cost to implement ICD-10 ranged from roughly $83,300 for a small practice to $2.7 million for a large practice, according to a cost study initiated by the American Medical Association (AMA) and conducted by Nachimson Advisors. However, an updated 2014 study predicts the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 8
The latest batch of online time-wasters offer several questions, and your answers determine which celebrity/state/car/dessert is “really you.” Yesterday I saw a variation—it was an opportunity to discover which Winter Olympic sport most closely matched your office or department. If your answer...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 8
Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization with more than 300,000 members and supporters nationwide, last month issued comments on the HRSA’s proposed changes to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook. In a letter posted on the organization’s website, authors Alan Levine,...
Nurse practitioners (NP) would be allowed to treat patients and prescribe medications independently under a proposal by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration, a potentially significant change in the medical landscape aimed at expanding access to primary care. The ability of NPs to work...
The National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) has submitted its proposed changes to the NPDB Guidebook with the goal of clarifying the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) reporting process and to facilitate accuracy in NPDB reporting. In a letter signed by NAMSS president...
