I thought about work while I was on vacation last week: I wondered, “When CRC readers get a break, what do they do?” Our most recent MSP Salary Survey found that 50% of respondents handle credentialing and privileging for as many as 400 practitioners, and 21% reported that their department...
Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto have developed a “black box” for use in operating rooms, similar to that used in the airline industry. The goal is to improve patient safety and outcomes by identifying where errors occur in the OR and teaching surgeons how to prevent them. The...
Physicians in states with disclose, apology and offer (DA&O) laws must still have payouts made on their behalf reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the ruling in May, but few knew about it until mid-August when...
The national rate of physician turnover held steady at just under 7% during the past two years, but the number of physicians who retired from practice increased sharply in 2013, to an unprecedented 18%, according to the ninth annual Physician Retention Survey from the American Medical Group...
The Joint Commission last week announced revisions to its medical staff standards for hospitals and critical-access hospitals. The changes align with CMS’ revised Conditions of Participation (CoPs) announced in May, and address medical staff structure for multihospital systems;...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
A report by Moody’s Investor Service showed that the income for nonprofit hospitals declined for the second year in row in 2013, while the median revenue growth fell to the lowest percentage since the agency began tracking it 23 years ago.
