One of the most common situations that causes attribution difficulties is when care of a patient is handed off to multiple practitioners. Often,...Read More »
Last April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized the first substantive updates to the National Practitioner Data Bank (...Read More »
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986, which formed the legislative impetus for the NPDB, specifies that organizations must report a...Read More »
As fewer physicians take on voluntary duties, such as proctoring, your organization might struggle to find physicians who will serve as proctors....Read More »
The Office of Inspector General maintains a List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) database, which is updated on a monthly basis. Medical...Read More »
The healthcare industry continues to face a present and future staffing shortage. As a result, many practitioners have decided to reenter the...Read More »
On April 12, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed into law senate bill (SB) 1148, which moves to bar healthcare entities in the state from...Read More »
With negligent credentialing suits on the rise, MSPs and medical staff leaders must implement approaches that help cultivate a high-caliber...Read More »
Once upon a time, key medical staff leadership positions (officers, department chairs, credentials chair, peer review chair) were viewed as...Read More »
