For many workers, healthcare employment is going the way of fast food and retail: unstable schedules, punitive employers, and rigid management. Nursing assistants, overwhelmingly women and relatively low-paid, are hardest hit, according to University of Massachusetts sociologists...
I’ve been poring over my notes from the 2014 NAMSS Educational Conference and Exhibition, and discovered a quote from Hugh Greeley’s Tuesday presentation, “This is What We Live For: Effectively Dealing with Our Most Complex Applicants and Re-Applicants,” that stands out. Describing the MSPs...
If it passes in November, a California ballot measure would make the state the first in the nation to require drug testing for physicians. The requirement is part of Proposition 46 and represents a new twist in a decades-old fight to raise the cap for some damages in medical malpractice...
Not sure how to organize and present all your OPPE data? Just open your toolbox—the OPPE Toolbox, that is. Get the tools you need in The OPPE Toolbox: Field-Tested Documents for Credentialing, Competency, and Compliance. This vital new addition to the HCPro library...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
CMS has reopened the submission period with a deadline of November 1 for hospitals and physicians to apply for an EHR meaningful use hardship exemption to avoid payment adjustments next year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
This month Massachusetts became the first state to require health insurers and hospitals to make real-time pricing for healthcare services readily accessible to consumers.
