Hospitals are under increasing scrutiny to keep patients safe from suicide, self-harm, and violent behavior—and CMS has just made its expectations for patient safety even clearer.
The Joint Commission’s (TJC) Accreditation 360 initiative rolled out in mid-2025, restructuring how standards are written, organized, referenced, and ultimately surveyed. The initiative shifts significant detail into the newly expanded Survey Process Guide (SPG) documents and creates an entirely...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 2
The Court of Appeals of the Eastern District of Missouri (the Court) both reversed and affirmed a circuit court’s decision regarding protected health information, sought by the attorney general of Missouri, of a transgender care center and its patients.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 2
At her first medical staff services conference, Sara Cameron heard a story that many medical staff professionals eventually encounter. “They started talking about this gentleman, Michael Swango, a serial killer physician,” she recalls. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I know him.’ ”
To maintain Medicare billing privileges, a provider or supplier (other than a durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies [DMEPOS] supplier) must resubmit and recertify the accuracy of its enrollment information every five years, a process known as revalidation.
