The AMA is calling for barriers “based on arbitrary thresholds” to be lifted for prescription opioids. The organization says that these barriers,...Read More »
A New Jersey physician faces four-to-nine years in prison after pleading guilty this week to second-degree manslaughter in the fentanyl-related...Read More »
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 »
