To celebrate National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week, the CRC blog has featured questions and answers on topics such as credentialing physicians in hospital-owned clinics, access to employed physicians’ contracts, and medical staff...
As MaineHealth and credentialing partner Synernet get standardized privilege sets ready to go, MSB spoke to Robert E. McArtor, MD, CMO of the eight-hospital system, about some of the keys to the success of this initiative. Among them are consensus, collaboration, and listening...
CMS' revisions present credentialing issues and decisions for hospitals reagrding the process by which therapeutic diets may be ordered. In this article we identify some of the issues that must be considered before hospitals can implement changes to their credentialing process in order to...
National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week starts Sunday. Although I hope you’re not in the office on Sunday, I also hope your medical staff services department gets a week of star treatment from physicians, other departments, and the organizations you deal with every day. To celebrate the...
Federal officials have fined University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System $470,000 for allowing an anesthesiologist who was banned from Medicare and other federal programs to treat patients and bill the government for their care. The anesthesiologist at Ronald Reagan UCLA...
For many workers, healthcare employment is going the way of fast food and retail: unstable schedules, punitive employers, and rigid management. Nursing assistants, overwhelmingly women and relatively low-paid, are hardest hit, according to University of Massachusetts sociologists...
