The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates this week adopted recommendations for creating payment structures for physician-led team care delivery models with physicians determining who gets paid and how much. However, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) calls...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 46
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors has approved charters for two new advisory committees required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The PCORI Advisory Panel on Rare Disease and the Advisory Panel on Clinical Trials will begin meeting next spring...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 46
Legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives last week aims to improve access to telehealth services for active-duty military, retired veterans, and their dependents by expanding reimbursement to providers. HR 3507—which initially was co-sponsored by California Democratic Reps....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 46
WESTMED Medical Group, a 260-physician group practice, launched an accountable care organization (ACO) with Unitedhealth and its Optum medical services platform, and more than 13,000 individuals in March 2012. Since then, the physician-led ACO has earned nearly $1 million in performance bonuses...
HCPro is working on a new book about OPPE and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for the book is to feature case studies of organizations that have implemented an effective OPPE program or process and are excited about sharing their experience and forms with their peers.
