A New Jersey physician faces four-to-nine years in prison after pleading guilty this week to second-degree manslaughter in the fentanyl-related overdose death of a patient.
According to the lore surrounding the medical myth, July suffers more medical errors than any other month because of an influx of new medical school graduates starting their hospital training. However, this is not so, according to new research published this month in ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently unveiled a new pilot program that will give clinicians direct access to Medicare beneficiaries' claims data. CMS Administrator Seema Verma says the "Data at the Point of Care" pilot is designed to improve care, sharpen diagnoses,...
According to the Merritt Hawkins 2019 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives, primary care physicians are extremely in-demand. However, data gathered by Merritt Hawkins, a national healthcare search and conducting firm specializing in the recruitment of practitioners...
The Mount Carmel Health System fired 23 employees, and its CEO will resign later this month after it was discovered that a physician at the health system killed 25 patients by overprescribing opioids.
The terminated employees include five managers of physician, nursing, and/or pharmacy...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 7
Some states, such as Maryland, have implemented mandatory prescription drug monitoring programs to help address the opioid crisis. Such programs require both prescribers and pharmacists to not only report when controlled substances are prescribed/dispensed, but also query the database and...