The federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) was passed by Congress to extend immunity to good faith peer review of physicians and dentists and to create the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). The statute is located at 42 United States Code section 11101 et seq.
More than 680 of your colleagues have added their answers to our questions about salary, compensation, workload, and staffing. The survey will be open until April 26, but don’t procrastinate! Click here or enter this URL into the...
The Arkansas House of Representatives last week rejected a bill that would allow telemedicine companies to provide telemedicine services in the state using physicians licensed and living in Arkansas. The bill would allow patients to be treated by a physician through various forms of video using...
Monday, April 6 marks the kickoff of the daily CRC ezine. Your Credentialing Resource Center Insider is not only getting a new look, it’s getting a new name, too: Credentialing Resource Center Daily. Starting April 6, we’ll deliver news and resources on a daily basis...
On January 1, a Minnesota state law took effect allowing nurse practitioners (NP) to practice independently after completing 2,080 hours of supervised work. On April 6, the University of Minnesota School of Nursing will open a clinic in the Downtown East neighborhood, led by NPs. For years,...
