The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Appellate District of California (the “Court”) upheld a trial court’s denial of Riverside County...Read More »
An increasingly common mechanism is to establish a formal information-sharing agreement between the hospital medical staff and the employed physician group. These agreements allow the parties to recognize that patient safety and the effectiveness of their credentialing, privileging, and peer...
Understanding what the NPDB considers an investigation is very important because several of the updates clarify reporting requirements when a...Read More »
How interested would you be in a book about telemedicine (including information on credentialing and peer review of telemedicine providers)? ...Read More »
The Mount Carmel Health System fired 23 employees, and its CEO will resign later this month after it was discovered that a physician at the health...Read More »
A New Hampshire District Court (the “Court”) granted summary judgment to three corporate defendants, finding that a physician cannot sue a...Read More »
Some states, such as Maryland, have implemented mandatory prescription drug monitoring programs to help address the opioid crisis. Such programs...Read More »
Many organizations, physicians, and insurance companies advocate candid disclosure because it helps providers learn from their mistakes and empowers patients to make decisions based on complete information. When a hospital decides to set a disclosure policy, it must guide its staff on how to...
