BREAKING NEWS! April 1, 2017 - After 10 years of OPPE and FPPE, The Joint Commission released a press release announcing that the whole professional practice evaluation program was actually a study in the sheer willpower of MSPs. The notification came after a confidential email had been leaked...
The Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas Fort Worth (the "Court") affirmed a lower court's decision to deny a hospital's motion to dismiss liability claims brought by a patient following injuries sustained during a surgical procedure.
The California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, affirmed a lower court's decision that a neurosurgeon did not satisfy the burden to show that a hospital's failure to place another neurosurgeon on his peer review panel was...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) earlier this month released a position paper in which the agency urges the opening of healthcare markets to a broader range of providers. In the paper, “Policy Perspectives: Competition and the Regulation of Advanced Practice Nurses,” the FTC urges...
Your organization’s medical staff may never be one big happy family, but it doesn’t have to be a dysfunctional family, either. Resolve turf battles with guidance from conflict resolution experts Jack Cox, MD, MMM, Rosemary Dragon, CPMSM, CPCS, and Christine Hearst, CPMSM. Our new guide...
