Today marks the start of using ICD-10 codes—a long anticipated change in the healthcare community. Physicians will have to use these new diagnostic codes in order to get properly reimbursed from CMS and private payers. Medicare claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, will be...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
"This is not me being a dinosaur and refusing to move into the future. We are so overwhelmed by the administrative burden that we forget to step back and ask, 'Why are we doing this?' "
- Isabel Hoverman, MD, discusses how administrative burdens and costs—including the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
If you are attending the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) conference next week, make sure to stop by booth #114 to visit HCPro. My editorial and marketing colleagues will be there to answer any medical staff/credentialing questions you have as well as show...
Taking minutes can be a challenge. They should not be a verbatim account of routine discussions, but when they are required for hearings, appeals, and certain other situations, such as a fair hearing process, a verbatim transcript may be required.
Is there a balance between confidential peer review and keeping administration informed of actions taken against employed physicians? William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE, lays out your options.