California will become the latest state to enact a law cracking down on physicians who engaged in sexual misconduct with a patient. The new law, which goes into effect January 2023, requires the state's medical board to permanently revoke the physician’s license.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 12
The California Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a trial court’s decision striking a physician’s complaint that a hospital falsely reported him to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), finding that the hospital’s actions were protected by the state’s anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 11
The conviction of former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught in March for negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult due to a medical error made headlines nationwide. Organizations such as the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and the American...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 11
A hospital can’t charge a patient for a procedure based on its chargemaster rate after mistakenly quoting her a lower cost, according to a recent decision by the Colorado Supreme Court (the “Court”).
Centura Health’s St. Anthony North Health Campus (the “Hospital”) sued the patient, Lisa...
A recent study in Health Affairs found that physicians are hesitant to treat patients with disabilities and admit to being out of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Physicians reported...
