Multi-hospital systems will be allowed to use a unified and integrated medical staff structure, according to revised Conditions of Participation (CoP) published this week by the CMS. The organization cited the lack of evidence that a unified medical staff model is detrimental to...
Physicians in danger of burning out, who are tied to hospital care due to the nature of their specialty (surgeons, intensivists, anesthesiologists, etc.), may find relief by working as a locum tenens hospital-based physician, writes Val Jones, MD, in a recent KevinMD post. But...
May 11-17 is National Hospital Week, celebrating the institutions and their cadre of professionals dedicated to patient care. Hospitals and medical staff services are certainly in the spotlight. In the past week, CMS has finalized CoPs for medical staff structures in hospital...
The National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) has released the Ideal Credentialing Standards (ICS), a list of 13 criteria for establishing an applicant’s qualifications for medical staff membership and clinical privileges.
Despite dire predictions, the nation’s primary care system is handling the increased number of insured patients without major problems so far, according to interviews with community health centers, large physician practices, and insurers nationwide. Five months in, with about 13...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 20
Physician Retraining & Reentry (PRR) announced this week its online program--created in collaboration with the University of California San Diego School of Medicine faculty--to retrain retired and inactive physicians to practice general medicine at understaffed health centers.
