At the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium in Las Vegas, March 12-13, 2015, speaker Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, will address several hot-button credentialing and privileging issues....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
“Once upon a time, in a medical school far far away, I was taught that my sacred oath and calling was to the patient. The one patient. That has not changed. What I see now, what all doctors must understand, is that the individual patient, that one patient, that precious, irreplaceable...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
CMS has released a proposal to strengthen the Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) by placing more emphasis on primary care services and promoting transitions to performance-based risk arrangements. CMS proposes to refine the way Medicare beneficiaries are assigned to...
HCPro is working on a new book of FPPE forms and tools, and we’re inviting you to be a part of it. Our goal for this book is to feature policies, dashboards, indicator lists, and other forms your organization uses to conduct FPPE. The new book will be structured similarly to...
December marks the 15th anniversary of “To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System,” the landmark report from the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine that estimated up to 98,000 Americans die from preventable mistakes in hospitals every year. “It is time to know if...