The U.S. Supreme Court recently announced it will hear North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission to determine whether a federal agency has the right to intervene in state medical licensure board decisions.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
“Hospitals can do more to protect patients. Improved security, such as surveillance of drug storage areas, tighter chain of custody on drugs, and better tracking of controlled substances are obvious areas to target,” wrote Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson and Erika T. Broadhurst, a special...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
The nation will get a good look this week at the future faces of medicine. Friday is Match Day, the high-pressure equivalent of Draft Day in professional sports, when medical school seniors find out where they will be doing their residency training. Students found out Monday whether they...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
It’s a good month for money and numbers—tax preparation, March Madness, and the 2014 MSP Salary Survey! HCPro’s Medical Staff Leader Insider team wants to gauge the financial prospects for MSPs in 2014. Please take a few moments to complete our updated salary survey. If you’ve done this...
The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) has released new standards for OPPE and FPPE for critical access hospitals and acute care hospitals. Effective January 1, 2015, the medical staff is required to develop a process for evaluation of practitioners who have been granted...
“I am a ‘collaborating physician,’ and I support the effort to remove the requirement for a collaborative agreement for nurse practitioners to practice in New York,” wrote Devin Coppola, MD, in a letter to the editor that appeared online last week on the Syracuse Post-...