Okon Umana, MD, pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid more than $13 million from 2009 to 2012 for physical therapy, diagnostic testing, and other services that were unnecessary or did not actually occur.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
Fifty thousand fewer hospital patients died due to avoidable errors from 2011 to 2013, according to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
“[L]ook forward at the innovations that have come to medicine that are helpful. Be grateful for the improvements in treatment for many diseases that used to have no hope.”
- Starla Fitch, MD, discusses the benefits of technology to the practice of medicine...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
HCPro is working on a new book about focused professional practice evaluations (FPPE) and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for this book is to feature the policies, dashboards, indicator lists, and other forms your organization uses to...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 12
In a traditional medical staff services department (MSSD), everyone works in the same building, often in the same office. However, that is starting to change, and MSPs must be prepared to work on or manage virtual teams, according to a session at the NAMSS National Educational...
A large part of establishing privileging guidelines is boiling all the information down to what's most relevant to the unique specifications of the MSP's own facility and then making the best recommendations possible to the departments or service lines, the credentials committee...
