When residents assist during brain or spine surgery, the risk of complication or death does not increase, says a study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. Researchers looked at more than 16,000 brain and spine surgeries performed from 2006 to 2012. When the data were adjusted to take into...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 27
CMS announced this week it is making changes to the ICD-10 implementation transition period to help physicians avoid financial disruption and claims denials. The transition period will last for two years after the ICD-10 code set implementation deadline of October 1.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 27
“Conservative estimates suggest that 30% of all healthcare spending nationwide—roughly $600 billion annually—could be eliminated without any decrease in healthcare quality. This research is important, because it suggests that fractured patient care is related to this massive amount of overuse...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 27
A few of the articles in this week’s Medical Staff Leader Insider address issues that may or may not increase patient risk. One addresses whether low-volume providers and hospitals put patients at greater risk when performing procedures they rarely perform. The...
Q: We are a system of multiple hospitals, and each has its own medical staff bylaws. Is it advisable to allow individual hospital medical staff policies if our organization is trying to develop consistency across all hospitals? Or is it acceptable and recommended to have separate bylaws...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 27
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and the University of Michigan all plan to implement minimum volume standards on 10 procedures that are proven to be riskier when performed infrequently. The move comes after a report released by U.S. News & World Report which found...
