The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires covered entities to protect and confidentially handle patients’ protected health information. MSPs, physicians, and their organizations must remain vigilant or risk violating HIPAA. Most organizations don’t set out to...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 5
A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) made headlines late last year when it proclaimed that overlapping surgeries didn’t increase the risk of postop complications. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 5
CMS has cited University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore for violating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) stemming from an incident in which a female patient wearing only a gown and socks was escorted from the hospital by security staff and left at a bus stop...
According to a recent report by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), 83% of surveyed healthcare professionals view physician burnout as a major issue at their respective institutions. While this number is down from 96% in 2016, the majority of the 2018 respondents believe the...
