The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Wisconsin’s bid to begin enforcing a state law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, while a legal fight over the law plays out in lower federal courts. A federal judge is weighing a challenge to the law from Parent...
Medical inflation is expected to rise to 6.8% in 2015, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Hospitals paying more to acquire physician practices, and health IT integration investments for large-scale hospital integration and mergers, will play a major role in the increase...
Listen to health officials and you'll believe that tort reform—essentially, limits on individuals’ right to sue when they’re allegedly harmed receiving care—is necessary to stem the rising cost of healthcare. While it is true that healthcare costs continue to rise (but not as much as in the...
Propublica, dissecting data released by Medicare on payments made to health professionals in 2012, has uncovered some patterns in the data, the news outlet reported this week. Among its findings: Physicians with unusual billing patterns often have been disciplined by their state medical...
Analysis of recently released Medicare data has gleaned some interesting findings—a significant number of physicians with “unusual” Medicare billing patterns have been disciplined by their state medical boards or have had challenges to their licenses. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 26
With the changing demographics of the hospital medical staff comes growing challenges to collecting and assessing information on physician competence. Physician reentry, new procedures and technologies, low- and no-volume physicians, are just some of the issues medical staffs have to work...
