Editor's note: HCPro's Credentialing Resource Center is constantly adding to and updating its library of Clinical Privilege White Papers to guide you in developing and maintaining clinical privileges for practitioners at your organization. The following is an excerpt from the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 8
Physician proctors are utilized for a number of reasons, whether it's to instruct or observe a physician requesting privileges for new technology or a cutting-edge procedure, or as part of the peer review process to evaluate physicians with potential quality concerns.
In the first year of an experimental program to refashion Medicare, four of five Massachusetts networks of hospitals and physicians were able to slow spending by better coordinating medical care for patients, the Boston Globe reported. The accountable care organization (ACO) program, a...
The Essential Hospitals Engagement Network, a network created under the public-private Partnership for Patients established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has saved nearly $12 million over the past 18 months from the prevention of more than 1,100 patient harm events....
The vast majority of U.S. hospitals are led by non-physicians. Now, however, there is a movement afoot to put physicians into leadership positions because delivery reform law is changing the healthcare landscape. Patients and policymakers are demanding greater transparency, patient safety, cost...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 29
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights director Leon Rodriguez announced the termination of Medicaid funding to a California surgeon who intentionally discriminated against an HIV-positive patient by refusing to perform much needed back surgery. An order,...
