When vetting practitioner credentials through state medical boards, it’s important to understand this guiding principle: Each state medical board varies to a great degree.
Medical errors can be devastating. For patients and their families, an error can be a life-altering or even fatal event. But for physicians and other healthcare professionals, a medical error can have different types of consequences.
The story regarding Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and late-stage physicians carries on in the legal arena. In February 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged YNHH, the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, with violating federal law by adopting and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 6
Erin Muellenberg is a former medical staff services director in a large community-based hospital and now serves as a healthcare attorney for Polsinelli Law Firm, practicing exclusively medical staff law. She was the chair of the NAMSS Education Committee for 2020 and 2021 and is intimately...
Once your organization establishes the overall framework of its general policy on who will be allowed to provide allied health care and on the general allied health professional (AHP) credentialing requirements, specific policies may be developed for particular allied health disciplines. Since a...
The Biden administration issued an emergency regulation in November 2021 requiring COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers at facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Those who refuse the vaccination and do not obtain an exemption can’t practice medicine at those...