“Doctors need some quiet, down time, some time to think, to pay attention. We need to create our own boundaries between our personal and professional lives that are respected. We need to think we can get away, to regroup, have some quiet time for ourselves or with a patient, even for...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 39
Mark your calendars for March 12-13, 2015 for the return of the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. We have a great group of speakers lined up: Hugh Greeley; Todd Sagin, MD, JD; Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS;...
Medical sales representatives have long had a close relationship with physicians, providing services as surgical consultants as well as medtech dealers. However, that dynamic may be about to change in a big way. For example, Loma Linda University Medical Center in California is getting deep...
Two Massachusetts sisters faced arraignment in Middlesex Superior Court earlier this week, charged with using false psychologist credentials and fraudulently billing federal, state, and local agencies more than $580,000, according to the attorney general’s office. Neither is a licensed...
The Department of Veterans Affairs must hire “tens of thousands of new doctors, new nurses, new clinicians” to address a shortage of employees who are directly involved in treating patients, a factor many experts said was a main driver in the waiting-list scandal that rocked the agency this year...
