Congress last week overrode a presidential veto of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008—a bill that included a provision that changed The Joint Commission’s deeming authority status with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 28
The Deming philosophy of management, developed by William Edwards Deming, PhD, has helped numerous organizations improve quality. Deming suggests organizations ask themselves some important questions before adopting any new technology or procedure.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 27
On July 1, The Joint Commission published its revised standards, rationales, and elements of performance for 2009 online. Although no new standards have been added, The Joint Commission designed chapter overviews, standards, introductions, rationales, and elements of performance to make them...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 27
At a recent Greeley Company national seminar, a physician leader asked me why peer review committees should use a case review scoring system. She had attended another organiation’s program, which advocated eliminating final case scoring and simply classifying cases with care issues as “referrals...
