Proctoring as a competency assessment tool has had new life breathed into it by The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services insistence that practitioners demonstrate their current competence to hold privileges in accredited hospitals. No longer can physicians be deemed qualified...
Care New England Health System is taking a systemwide approach to FPPE policies and forms. It’s a work in progress, but some elements are already in place, says Anne Marie Dion, CPMSM, director of medical staff services at Kent Hospital, in Warwick, Rhode Island, part of the...
Last spring the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) updated its guidelines for the first time in more than 10 years. The following questions and answers are from the recent HCPro webcast, FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How to Address New Reporting Challenges, presented by...
The following questions and answers are from the recent HCPro webcast, "FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How to Address New Reporting Challenges," presented by Todd Sagin, MD, JD, national director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting, LLC, and HG Consultants, LLC.
The Second District Court of Appeal of Florida (the "Court") has held that external peer review reports are not discoverable because they do not fall within the scope of the amendment of the state's constitution that preempts Florida's peer review privilege. Approved by Florida voters in 2004,...
