Fraud made house calls, according to the FBI’s Chicago Division. A physician and the CEO of Chicago-based Mobile Doctors, which manages physicians who make house calls in six states, were arrested late last month on federal healthcare fraud charges. At the same time, federal agents executed...
Federal regulators are reversing course and will resume publicly releasing data on hospital mistakes, including when foreign objects are left in patients' bodies or patients were give the wrong blood type. USA Today reported last month that CMS had stopped publicly reporting a host of...
A team of international health policy experts recently compared administrative costs of U.S. hospitals with those of other industrialized nations with various types of healthcare systems: Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. The study,...
A couple of weeks ago I asked readers whether they thought about work during time off. Their answers ranged from “what time off?” and “I not only think about work during time away, I also do it” (which made up the...
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) last week announcd a completed draft of model legislation to create an Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. The compact would expedite the process of issuing licenses for physicians who wish to practice in multiple states. The model legislation...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has called for a 12% increase in federal funding in 2015 to help recruit and educate new nurses to fill newly created position and replace retiring nurses. The ANA projects the U.S. will need 1.1 million new nurses by 2022.
