Nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) were originally envisioned to provide primary care services in underserved areas. To gauge NP and PA activity in non-primary care roles, Brett Coldiron, MD, and Mondhipa Ratnarathorn, MD, studied the scope of independent procedural...
An Iowa Board of Medicine administrative rule banning abortion through a teleconferencing system is politically motivated and “based on a conservative-leaning panel appointed by a conservative governor in opposition to abortion,” not on medical practices that would benefit rural patients,...
The newest issue of CRCJ is here, and includes the first installment of our look at credentialing practitioners in hospital-owned clinics. This was the topic of a recent Credentialing Resource Center Insider Editor’s Note that generated a high level and variety of...
A well-trained medical staff leader is vital to the culture of a hospital’s medical staff and can save a hospital from the expense of lawsuits affiliated with negligent credentialing/peer review. But great physicians don’t always make great leaders.
Demand for alternative therapies is on the rise, and while some practitioners remain skeptical, many physicians have embraced the need for more research. Not so fast, says Brian Goldman, MD, in his White Coat, Black Art blog. Goldman cited a Trends in Molecular Medicine article...
I thought about work while I was on vacation last week: I wondered, “When CRC readers get a break, what do they do?” Our most recent MSP Salary Survey found that 50% of respondents handle credentialing and privileging for as many as 400 practitioners, and 21% reported that their department...