On Wednesday, July 9, HCPro hosted a webcast entitled "Assessing and Managing Clinically Suspect Practitioners: From Collegial Intervention to Corrective Action." During the 90-minute webcast, Todd Sagin, MD, JD, national medical director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
Developing and implementing a criteria-based core privileging system is challenging and requires considerable effort, but the result will greatly benefit the organized medical staff and the healthcare organization.
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to physician reentry, and that's the way it should be, according to Nielufar Varjavand, MD, associate professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and program director of the Drexel Physician refresher/reentry course at Drexel...
A critical question in medicine will come before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall: How much power should physicians wield over their peers when the power to regulate also potentially could tamp down competition that benefits patients? The court has announced that on October 8, justices will...
Missouri Gov. Ray Nixon has signed a bill that creates a new class of medical license in that state: the “assistant physician.” The new certificate will be issued to medical school graduates who didn’t get into a residency program and who passed Step 1 and 2 exams, but not Step 3. Assistant...
Starting this week, nurse practitioners (NP) in Kentucky who have completed a four-year collaboration with a physician can prescribe routine medications without physician involvement, a major shift that could help improve consumers’ access to care, Kaiser Health News reports. Senate...
