California Governor Jerry Brown last week signed a bill to make it easier for rural patients to utilize telehealth technology. Assembly Bill 809 changes the consent rules around use of telehealth, allowing providers to secure consent the first time patients use the technology, and removes the...
Employed physicians—now comprising 59% of all U.S. physicians—have their own set of personal financial challenges, in part due to their employment status. In a report released earlier this week, AMA Insurance, a subsidiary of the AMA, offered the findings of a survey conducted in May to...
It’s common for patients to come into a hospital with injuries, but too often they’re the ones inflicting injury on nurses, technicians, and security guards, according to a new study by researchers with Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, published in the Journal of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 39
A Dorchester, Massachusetts woman faces up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine after pleading guilty to charges related to offering unlicensed lip and buttock augmentation injections using Colombian massage oil.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 39
A judge recently approved a $190 million settlement that John Hopkins has agreed to pay to settle claims that a gynecologist, Nikita Levy, secretly filmed and photographed patients during examinations
