The United States District Court of Texas, El Paso division (the “Court”), denied Tenet Hospitals’ motion to dismiss a plaintiff’s Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) claim, finding that a hospital’s failure to abide by its own screening procedures constitutes a valid...
Since the 20th century, the organized medical staff has been a basic requirement for all hospitals. In 2014, CMS revised its CoPs to address an evolving trend across multiple hospitals in a health system: the unification of medical staffs. However, this revision came after the National...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 6
In October 2018, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released an update to the National Practitioner Data Bank’s (NPDB) Guidebook. This marks the first update since HRSA made significant changes to the rules in 2015. There are significant clarifications and new...
So much has changed since the American College of Surgeons recommended laundry list privileging in the 1950s. At that time, many physicians had not completed approved residency programs in specific specialty areas—many were general practitioners or physicians trained on the job after they...
The annual cost of physician burnout is conservatively estimated at $4.6 billion, research published this week shows. The study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, is one of the first attempts to estimate the cost of physician burnout to health systems, hospitals, and physician practices...
