The American Medical Association (AMA), a number of other national provider associations, and 47 state medical societies are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to preserve federal funding for state-based quality improvement organizations (QIOs). Some of the nation’s...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 32
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging acute care organizations to invite their Congressional representatives—who are currently out for August recess—to visit their local hospitals. "Let them see your quality improvements, work to reduce readmissions, investments in health information...
Massachusetts’ largest nurses union will ask voters to do what the State Legislature has refused to do: establish statewide limits on the number of hospital patients assigned to each nurse. The Massachusetts Nurses Association launched a Facebook campaign earlier this week and an Internet...
Medicare will levy $227 million in fines against hospitals nationwide for the second round of the government’s campaign to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month, according to federal records released last week. Medicare identified 2,225 hospitals that will have payments reduced...
A veteran nurse present during a botched kidney transplant the University of Toledo Medical Center, in Toledo, Ohio, last summer has sued for wrongful termination. The lawsuit filed last week in Columbus seeks $25,000 for Melanie LeMay, a nurse suspended then fired after a different nurse...
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) last week released a joint paper that advocates for physician-led, team-based care, while defining the critical roles physician assistants (PAs) and physicians play in improving access to high-...
