A long-standing survey practice of The Joint Commission is to request a copy of the operating room schedule on the day the surveyor(s) are to visit the OR and then select specific practitioner files to compare their privileges to the procedures they are performing on that given day. This may...
For MSPs, understanding the regulatory road map is essential to ensure credentialing and privileging practices are compliant with applicable state law and other regulatory standards. In this article, we point out some of the major ideas that should be understood when credentialing and...
In February 2014, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine entered into an agreement to transform the accreditation system for graduate medical education (GME)...
Although telemedicine has the potential to make access to care simpler and easier, healthcare experts and telemedicine advocates still have concerns that regulatory obstacles are preventing the industry from reaching its full potential, while raising legal questions for both hospitals and...
Updates to the NPDB Guidebook are being met with some resistance from legal and regulatory organizations, particularly concerning the way in which the NPDB defines an investigation.
H.R. 3402, the "doc fix" legislation that President Barack Obama signed on April 1 to provide additional temporary Medicare Sustained Growth Rate funding--and avert a 24% pay cut for physicians--included a provision to postpone the deadline for ICD-10 implementation to at least...
