Many organizations continue to struggle with appropriately attributing care provided by advanced practice professionals (APP), especially when there are specific supervision requirements in place that must be met before the patient encounter can be closed. Coding such encounters appropriately...
Six years ago, Pocono Health System created a committee to streamline the process of bringing new technology and devices to the hospital. What has the New Innovations Committee learned since implementation, and has the initiative been a success?
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 8
Last April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized the first substantive updates to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook in more than a decade. Roughly one year after the rollout, experts say the broadened reporting expectations have weightier...
We want to know: What keeps Medical Staff Briefing your go-to resource for actionable strategy, expert guidance, and customizable tools in all things medical staff governance and credentialing? Is it the targeted news and analysis? The best practice-driven advice from your peers...
The hospital-only specialty, which originated in primary care in the 1990s, has caught on throughout many sub-specialties. Among OB-GYN, gastroenterology, and general surgery services, hospitalist growth has been driven in part by physicians' desires for greater work-life balance, particularly...
The Office of Inspector General maintains a List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) database, which is updated on a monthly basis. Medical staff stakeholders can search the database to identify entities and individuals who are excluded from Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare...
