Provider credentialing in Oregon is on its way to becoming more streamlined under a bill that mandates healthcare entities use a single credentialing system by 2016. The initiative, known as SB 604, requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish an electronic database for credentialing...
Greater reliance on physician assistants (PA) and nurse practitioners (NP) is seen as one way to ameliorate the widening primary care physician shortage. However, data suggest that less than half of all PAs currently practice primary care and nearly half of NPs practice outside primary care,...
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) National Practitioner Data Bank will replace the Interface Control Document Transfer Program (ITP) with the Querying and Reporting XML Service (QRXS) on July 31, 2014. Users who currently query or report through the Data Bank website or...
Physicians often depend on continuing medical education (CME) to learn about new tests and therapies, and CME is required for physician relicensing, recredentialing, and recertification. However, 75% of CME providers received support from commercial entities in 2011, which raises concerns about...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 24
Institutions that notice diagnostic errors need to have a better way to notify physicians when their diagnoses are incorrect, researchers say, because internists’ overconfidence in their decisions may be hurting patient care. Even though they were right only 6% of the time and should have had...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 34
A bill to expedite license approvals for physicians who will practice in medically underserved areas passed the California Legislature last week and was headed for the governor’s desk. Assembly Bill 1288 requires the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to...
