This month we continue our dive into the pain points that provider enrollment professionals face. During the recent National Provider Enrollment Virtual Event, speakers fielded attendee-submitted questions about the processes involved with enrolling practitioners and facilities with both...
In the face of a healthcare provider shortage, Montana lawmakers have introduced a bill to give physician assistants (PA) more independence to practice unsupervised.
The number of privileging disputes occurring in hospitals is growing rapidly. It’s easy to understand this trend if you examine how medicine has evolved. In the “good old days,” physicians of all specialties had a defined area of turf on the playing field and specialties didn’t cross those...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 2
Foreign national physicians and international medical graduates who are pursuing employment or seeking to become clinically active in the United States most often apply for an H-1B visa, which allows a foreign national to enter the U.S. for professional-level employment for up to six years. This...
We’d all like to think every piece of information that comes to the medical staff during the peer review process is legitimate and devoid of hearsay and invalid sources. Would be nice, right?
In the first half of 2022, 7.5 million Medicare users accessed telehealth services to receive healthcare. During that same time, there were about 45 million Medicare telehealth-eligible users. This is according to the Medicare Telehealth Trends Report, which looked at telehealth usage by...
