It’s my pleasure to introduce myself as the new editor of Medical Staff Leader Insider. For those of you interested in my background, I’m a graduate of the University of Rhode Island’s journalism program and I’ve previously worked as a reporter for several newspapers...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 21
The Ohio House recently passed a bill aiming to authorize eligible physician assistants to write prescriptions. According to the legislation, a physician assistant could be granted authority to write prescriptions if he or she holds a master’s degree or higher; or had prescriptive authority in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 21
The salaries of insurance and hospital executives frequently far exceed those of highly trained physicians, according to an analysis recently published by The New York Times.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 21
Creating a new position to assume a physician’s documentation duties may lead to better patient care and satisfaction, according to a University of California study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine.
May 11-17 is National Hospital Week, celebrating the institutions and their cadre of professionals dedicated to patient care. Hospitals and medical staff services are certainly in the spotlight. In the past week, CMS has finalized CoPs for medical staff structures in hospital...
Physicians in danger of burning out, who are tied to hospital care due to the nature of their specialty (surgeons, intensivists, anesthesiologists, etc.), may find relief by working as a locum tenens hospital-based physician, writes Val Jones, MD, in a recent KevinMD post. But...
