CMS has posted publicly accessible hospital survey deficiency data on its website, and plans to do so on a regular basis. Hospitals must be prepared to acknowledge CMS deficiencies and answer questions about practitioners and the care they provide. Medical services professionals...
For most medical staffs, OPPE and FPPE have become everyday parlance. Others still think of them as four-letter words. Now, several years after OPPE and FPPE were added to The Joint Commission's standards for hospitals, some facilities are still struggling to perfect their practices.
The Supreme Court of North Dakota affirmed a state district court's decision to grant a health system's motion for summary judgment regarding a physician's claims against it for defamation, tortious interference with a prospective business advantage, and violations of North Dakota state...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 46
The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates this week adopted recommendations for creating payment structures for physician-led team care delivery models with physicians determining who gets paid and how much. However, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) calls...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 45
Value-based compensation is on the rise, but productivity still reigns supreme, according to the Physicians Practice 2013 Physician Compensation Survey, which was released last week. Thirty-three percent of 1,474 physicians and staff surveyed said a portion of their compensation is tied...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 44
The Joint Commission has revised its policy for inclusion of physician practices in hospital and critical access hospital accreditation surveys. Previously, Joint Commission policy required that a physician practice be included in the hospital’s survey if at least one of two criteria were...
A Supreme Court decision handed down in June offers greater protections for physician employers that face retaliation claims, effectively discouraging physicians from bringing forth frivolous claims related to discrimination-a ruling that could impact the way healthcare facilities deal with...
Tucked away on the far side of mountain passes in northeast Oregon, the 25-bed critical access Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande provides much-needed care for a populace that can be cut off from larger facilities by a single snowstorm.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 11
In the past decade, as improving patient safety became a major initiative, healthcare organizations began to look at how companies and agencies in other fields minimize failures and prevent errors. Many are now taking a closer look at high-reliability training as a way to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 43
Physicians-in-training are unlikely to engage in common courtesy behaviors such as introducing themselves fully to patients or sitting down to talk to them one-on-one, according to recent research from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
