The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey - Camden (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, granted defendants' motion to dismiss a surgeon's claims of antitrust violations, civil rights violations, and unfair competition.
If you are struggling with challenges around the intersection of employed physicians and the organized medical staff, you are far from being alone. Every day, many organizations have to deal with fundamental questions about basic processes such as credentialing, privileging, proctoring, peer...
As the country's population continues to grow older, hospitals and medical staffs may struggle with how to monitor the skills and abilities of their physicians who are also advancing in age. According to a study released earlier this year by the Association of American Medical Colleges on the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 6
The intent of this series was to demystify the OPPE process and offer best practices that could be implemented in your organization. The fundamental underlying principle of OPPE is the ongoing determination of physician competency, a requirement by CMS in the Conditions of Participation...
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (the Court) held that the Louisiana peer review privilege protected a non-party hospital from a subpoena served on it by an insurance company seeking peer review information about one of its physicians.
