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...Read More »
Last week, Medscape released its annual Physician Compensation Report for 2020. The report’s data was collected prior to February 10, 2020 and...Read More »
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...Read More »
A powerful tool for managing physician performance is the physician performance pyramid that was developed by the late Howard Kirz, MD, at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Kirz for many years participated in teaching the “Managing Physician Performance in Organizations” course at the...
One of the most challenging problems faced by physician leaders is addressing the unprofessional behavior of a colleague. Why is it that the most...Read More »
This article was orginally published in November 2018 and discusses the different signs of burnout, depression, and risk of suicide. As many...Read More »
Practicing social distancing is a must in the era of COVID-19 but so is education. That’s why we’re offering the Credentialing Resource Center...Read More »
If organizations merely address legalities in their contracts with physicians and fail to define expectations, they almost guarantee that the...Read More »
As a physician treating COVID-19 patients since the start of the outbreak in the United States, it comes as no surprise that Raúl Zambrano, MS, MD, MRO, FAAFP, FACHE, a contracted the virus from a patient.
