The Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program's latest scope of work, which gets underway this month, has some notable results to follow. During the three-year program period that just ended, hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries declined by 13% in QIO...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment to a hospital facing claims of racial discrimination from a physician. The Court ruled that the physician failed to...
The Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program's latest scope of work, which gets underway this month, has some notable results to follow. During the three-year program period that just ended, hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries declined by 13% in QIO...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
Hospital medical staffs, MSPs, and governing bodies should take note of the changes CMS made to its final rule earlier this year, which went into effect in July. These changes will affect hospital medical staffs, although not right away.
Although telemedicine has the potential to make access to care simpler and easier, healthcare experts and telemedicine advocates still have concerns that regulatory obstacles are preventing the industry from reaching its full potential, while raising legal questions for both...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
Medical oncology is the subspecialty of internal medicine that focuses on the study of cancer, the term used to describe more than 100 different diseases characterized by the uncontrolled abnormal growth of cells that can spread throughout the body.