Yale New Haven Hospital has developed a two-step assessment process for all clinicians who are at least 70 years old and seeking reappointment to the medical staff
The bedrock of the medical staff due process manual is a federal statute named the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA). As with many laws and statutes, a specific case triggered HCQIA. The story is worth repeating as it highlights what constitutes good-faith and bad-faith peer...
Last week, Medscape released its annual Physician Compensation Report for 2020. The report’s data was collected prior to February 10, 2020 and therefore reflects physician income before the United States’ COVID-19 crisis. However, according to the report, practices have seen, on average, a 55%...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 5
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on the world, its citizens, and of course, the healthcare community. Many MSPs naturally have had their roles affected by the onslaught of changes at hospitals and healthcare facilities when it comes to credentialing and privileging, where staffs have...
