Okon Umana, MD, pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid more than $13 million from 2009 to 2012 for physical therapy, diagnostic testing, and other services that were unnecessary or did not actually occur.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
Fifty thousand fewer hospital patients died due to avoidable errors from 2011 to 2013, according to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
“[L]ook forward at the innovations that have come to medicine that are helpful. Be grateful for the improvements in treatment for many diseases that used to have no hope.”
- Starla Fitch, MD, discusses the benefits of technology to the practice of medicine...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
HCPro is working on a new book about focused professional practice evaluations (FPPE) and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for this book is to feature the policies, dashboards, indicator lists, and other forms your organization uses to...
A contemporary definition of peer review is far more "expansive" than the traditional notion of individual case/chart review. It includes the ongoing evaluation of an individual's performance for all relevant performance dimensions using all appropriate, relevant, and available sources of...
This month begins a series on understanding and implementing an effective ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) peer review program in your organization. This series is designed to demystify the process and offer OPPE best practices that can actually be implemented by medical staffs.
