Requirements for licenses to practice medicine differ from state to state, and even when information is available across state lines, license portability can be administratively burdensome. The Federation of State Medical Boards' (FSMB) Interstate Medical Licensure Compact...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 4
When it comes to disclosing disciplinary actions taken against a physician, no news can be bad news in some circumstances; meaning, if an entity does not respond to requests for verification of the practitioner's status, there may be a reason for the non-response. Appropriate...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 4
BREAKING NEWS! April 1, 2017 - After 10 years of OPPE and FPPE, The Joint Commission released a press release announcing that the whole professional practice evaluation program was actually a study in the sheer willpower of MSPs. The notification came after a confidential email had been leaked...
A recent Pennsylvania court decision has shed new light on how the court system looks at employee contracts between a physician and a hospital, with additional intriguing considerations regarding the role an NPDB report plays in a physician's termination.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 4
Last November, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced plans to revise the NPDB Guidebook, the National Practitioner Data Bank's (NPDB) policy manual. In November 2013, the HRSA provided a draft of the new...
