Just who is entitled to be called “doctor” in hospitals, medical offices and other clinical settings is being considered by the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners. Under a proposal before the board, physician assistants (PA) with doctoral degrees would be barred from using the title...
CMS last week released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on potential payment and care delivery models that focus on outpatient specialty care and complex/chronic disease management care. The RFI could affect a broad group of healthcare stakeholders,including physician specialty...
Recent news includes attempts to simplify care, both for physicians in rural hospitals and for New Jersey patients wondering whether there’s a “doctor” in the house. Another simple idea in the headlines this week might not be so simple, however. A Midwestern entrepreneur’s idea for...
Rural and small hospitals may get relief from a federal rule that requires a physician to be present in a department during routine procedures, such as blood transfusions and some immunizations. Critics have argued that the law, passed in 2009, could stretch physicians too thin and could lead to...
Healthcare organizations of all kinds are being routinely attacked and compromised by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, according to a new study by Norse, a Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm, and SANS, a security research institute. Networks and Internet-connected devices in hospitals...
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,...
