For the second year in row, the average physician turnover rate remained at 6.8 percent for 2013, according to a survey by the American Medical Group Association (AMGA). The rate is the highest on record since the AMGA began tracking it in 2005.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
“The difficulty of getting into medical school ensures that most doctors are people who naturally drive themselves very hard and demand excellence from themselves and everyone around them.”
Henry M. Kuerer, MD, PhD, FACS, discusses the causes of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
I recently read a CNN article about researchers developing a surgical “black box” for the operating room, similar to those found in airplanes. The black box would use cameras to...
The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked CMS to postpone the deadline for physicians and teaching hospitals to register and review the Open Payments system to March 31, 2015.
CMS took the system offline on August 3 due to technical issues and brought it...
Arizona-based Carondelet Health Network has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations that two of its hospitals submitted false claims for inpatient rehabilitation services to Medicare and other federal programs from 2004 to 2011.
The Iowa Board of Medicine fined plastic surgeon and hand specialist Rene F. Recinos, MD, PhD, $2,500 for performing trigger release surgery on a patient’s right ring finger instead of the right middle finger. Recinos realized his mistake, informed the patient, and performed the...
