The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 14
About half of all physicians are employed by a hospitals or an integrated delivery system, but unlike the hiring spree in the 1990s that fizzled out, this trend is likely to have a long-standing affect on healthcare, according to “Hospitals' Race to Employ Physicians — The Logic Behind a Money-...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 14
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking comments regarding possible fraud and abuse waivers that would apply to accountable care organizations (ACO).
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 4
The Joint Commission has initiated a slight, but potentially onerous change for credentialing and privileging physician assistants (PA) and advanced practice RNs (APRN).
Back in what some physicians may consider the "good old days," board certification wasn't that big of a deal. It was a great accomplishment-if your specialty had a board to speak of-but it wasn't necessary to have a successful practice. Today, however, nearly every specialty has...
