Disruptive behavior from physicians has become a topic of conversation after a recent court case that awarded a colonoscopy patient $500,000 after he recorded his anesthesiologist making disparaging remarks about him during the procedure. Disruptive behavior can also lead to bad patient outcomes...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
With patient satisfaction surveys factoring more heavily into Medicare payments, hospitals are making more of an effort to improve the bedside manner of its physicians. Research has shown that hospitals that encourage physicians to be more responsive to patients are more likely to have higher...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
The University of Utah Health Care is crediting a program that provides the cost of doing business for helping it to reduce its expenses over the past few year. While other academic hospitals in the area have seen costs increase an average of 2.9%, the University of Utah has had its costs...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 35
Two pilot programs launching this month as a collaboration between the UCLA Center for Prehospital Care, the Los Angeles Country Emergency Medical Services agency, and the Glendale and Santa Monica fire departments will expand the roles of paramedics in hopes of reducing hospital readmissions...
After resigning from Disjointed Hospital following her nine-month traumatic employment process, Dr. Young seeks employment at Coordinated Hospital. On her first visit, the physician recruiter informs her that some background information will be verified by the medical staff services department (...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 9
Maintenance of certification (MOC) has become the focus of many physicians, as some question its relevance, others offer opinions on ways to make it better, and others look for alternative certification options. One created an alternative board for physician certification, The National Board of...
The Supreme Court of Michigan (the Court), reversing the decision of a trial court, held that objective facts contained in an incident report are protected by the state's peer review statute.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 34
A new AMA report examined how non-solo physicians were being paid and found that just over half received compensation by multiple methods. Of those methods, salary and productivity-based payments were the most common with 61% and 53.5% respectively.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 33
In recent years, many hospitals have adopted communication policies that allow and encourage physicians to apologize to patients when they make a mistake. According to Modern Healthcare, “such initiatives have led to improved transparency and better physician-patient relationships, as...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 32
Due to a proposed change to the two-midnight rule, CMS has further delayed enforcement of the policy through the end of the year. An enforcement delay passed by Congress was set to expire on September 30.
