The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires covered entities to protect and confidentially handle patients’ protected health information. MSPs, physicians, and their organizations must remain vigilant or risk violating HIPAA. Most organizations don’t set out to...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 5
A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) made headlines late last year when it proclaimed that overlapping surgeries didn’t increase the risk of postop complications. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 5
CMS has cited University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore for violating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) stemming from an incident in which a female patient wearing only a gown and socks was escorted from the hospital by security staff and left at a bus stop...
According to a recent report by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), 83% of surveyed healthcare professionals view physician burnout as a major issue at their respective institutions. While this number is down from 96% in 2016, the majority of the 2018 respondents believe the...
“Physicians are enormously influential people, and their attitudes and actions carry weight. Their behavior shapes the culture of the workplace environment, and that culture either engages or disengages others.”
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 5
In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (the “Court”) recently affirmed a Superior Court decision to uphold a trial court’s ruling that limited the scope of the state’s Peer Review Protection Act (PRPA). The Court ruled that peer review documents are only protected by the PRPA if...
