When is an action reportable to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)? The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration’s Data Bank News website offers periodic reporting scenario articles that answer this question. The following was posted...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 6
Physician employment has been a growing trend for years, yet physicians, hospitals, and health systems alike are still ironing out wrinkles in employment agreements.
Locum tenens is a Latin phrase for "a person who stands in temporarily for someone else of the same profession." In healthcare, these temporary assignments are becoming a more frequent and reliable source of care.
Credentialing and medical staff services professionals are found in a diversified and vast number of environments: insurance, hospitals, physician offices, surgical and ambulatory care centers, and more.
How is your medical staff broken down? Does your organization have a multitude of departments? Are you limited to medical and surgical departments only, with smaller breakdowns within those departments? Or do you have something in between?
An Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision to uphold the Arizona Medical Board's decision to issue a letter of reprimand to a physician. The court concluded that the board's vote to issue the letter of reprimand was valid because the board met the quorum and...
