If it passes in November, a California ballot measure would make the state the first in the nation to require drug testing for physicians. The requirement is part of Proposition 46 and represents a new twist in a decades-old fight to raise the cap for some damages in medical malpractice...
A bill to streamline the physician reentry process, introduced last month by U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) last month, has been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. H.R.5498, the Primary Care Physician Reentry Act, would establish a grant program for medical schools,...
For many workers, healthcare employment is going the way of fast food and retail: unstable schedules, punitive employers, and rigid management. Nursing assistants, overwhelmingly women and relatively low-paid, are hardest hit, according to University of Massachusetts sociologists...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
CMS has reopened the submission period with a deadline of November 1 for hospitals and physicians to apply for an EHR meaningful use hardship exemption to avoid payment adjustments next year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
This month Massachusetts became the first state to require health insurers and hospitals to make real-time pricing for healthcare services readily accessible to consumers.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
The boards of Kindred Healthcare and Gentiva Health Services unanimously approved a deal that would create one of the country’s largest operator of long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and home health and hospice services, with an expected annual...
