CMS launched its Open Payments website this week, aiming to promote transparency within the healthcare industry by disclosing payments to healthcare providers from drug and medical device companies.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 40
"Good luck to the consumers heading to the website to see if their doctors are getting money from drug and device makers. Or the doctors trying to check whether they or their colleagues are in it."
- Charles Ornstein, senior reporter at ProPublica,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 40
CMS rolled out its Open Payments website this week and, as expected, some of the early reviews of it aren’t great. I briefly touch upon ProPublica’s first impression in “Heard this Week” but...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 10
When hospitals acquire practices and clinics, the medical staff services department (MSSD) faces credentialing and privileging questions. Will physicians in newly acquired clinics be considered members of the hospital medical staff? Will they be credentialed by the hospital's medical...
The North Carolina Court of Appeals (the “Court”), in an unpublished opinion, reversed a county Superior Court order for a hospital to produce peer review information. The Court ruled in a matter related to an orthopedic surgeon’s lawsuit alleging unfair and deceptive trade...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (the "Court") granted a hospital's motions to dismiss and strike a cardiologist's lawsuit alleging whistleblower retaliation, interference with economic interests, unfair trade practices, and violations of 42 U.S.C...