Like it or not, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is here to stay. In June, The United States Supreme Court upheld the law after...Read More »
As part of President Obama's executive order "Improving Regulations and Regulatory Review," which aims to reduce unnecessarily...Read More »
In mid-May, CMS released a final rule containing many changes to its hospital Conditions of Participation (CoP). There has...Read More »
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted a study to examine the effect federal fraud and abuse...Read More »
It is important that medical staff leaders, MSPs, and all other hospital staff that carry out credentialing, peer review, and...Read More »
At the beginning of 2012, New Mexico expanded its state laws regarding reporting settlements, judgments, adverse actions, and...Read More »
Reporting a physician to the NPDB is not to be taken lightly, and hospitals must understand when it is appropriate to do so. In...Read More »
Every healthcare provider will tell you that patients are customers, and customers can take their business elsewhere if they are unhappy about any...Read More »
According to a recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) report, Hospital Incident Reporting Systems Do Not Capture Most Patient Harm (...Read More »
In an effort to improve the accuracy of the data contained within the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and the Healthcare...Read More »
