Is your organization looking for family medicine practitioners or internal medicine physicians? Wondering why the search is taking so long? Merritt Hawkins’ “2014 Review Of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” spots some interesting trends that might already be...
A surgeon with an alleged history of bad behavior must pay a nurse $5,000 in compensatory damages and $35,000 for punitive damages after kicking her and leaving a bruise, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled. The court upheld a previous decision that ordered cardiothoracic surgeon Robert T. Fried...
What are regulators really looking for from your medical staff services department? When CMS seems to want one thing and accreditors want something else, you need to cut through the confusion. Tune in to HCPro’s new webcast “Verify and Comply: Meet Your Top Credentialing Challenges,” on...
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that remove criminal sanctions for the medical use of marijuana, define eligibility for such use, and allow some means of access. Three more—Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania—have pending medical marijuana legislation or...
Illinois medical regulators have suspended the medical license of psychiatrist Michael Reinstein, who prescribed more of the most powerful and riskiest antipsychotic drug clozapine than any other doctor in the country. The state’s medical disciplinary board recommended the sanction in May...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
Medicaid patients who visit the emergency department (ED) are seeking treatment for urgent and serious problems, according to a new report from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC).
