In the first installment of a three-part webcast series on overcoming competency assessment challenges, Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, senior consultant at the Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, Mass.; and Anne Roberts, CPCS, CPMSM, senior director of medical affairs at...
Greater reliance on physician assistants (PA) and nurse practitioners (NP) is seen as one way to ameliorate the widening primary care physician shortage. However, data suggest that less than half of all PAs currently practice primary care and nearly half of NPs practice outside primary care,...
Provider credentialing in Oregon is on its way to becoming more streamlined under a bill that mandates healthcare entities use a single credentialing system by 2016. The initiative, known as SB 604, requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish an electronic database for credentialing...
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) National Practitioner Data Bank will replace the Interface Control Document Transfer Program (ITP) with the Querying and Reporting XML Service (QRXS) on July 31, 2014. Users who currently query or report through the Data Bank website or...
Physicians often depend on continuing medical education (CME) to learn about new tests and therapies, and CME is required for physician relicensing, recredentialing, and recertification. However, 75% of CME providers received support from commercial entities in 2011, which raises concerns about...
