H.R. 3402, the "doc fix" legislation that President Barack Obama signed on April 1 to provide additional temporary Medicare Sustained Growth Rate funding--and avert a 24% pay cut for physicians--included a provision to postpone the deadline for ICD-10 implementation to at least...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 6
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's glossary, a Just Culture is defined as "a culture that recognizes that competent professionals make mistakes and acknowledges that even competent professionals will develop unhealthy norms (shortcuts or 'routine rule...
Three out of four physicians believe that fellow practitioners prescribe an unnecessary test or procedure at least once a week, according to a survey released last week. The most frequent reasons that physicians order extraneous—and costly—medical care are fears of being sued, the desire to be...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 18
The vast majority of physicians aren't troublemakers, but bad behavior clearly isn't an isolated problem. There have been cases of physicians throwing objects in the operating room, yelling and hitting patients, and sexual abuse, the Association of Health Care Journalists reported recently—yet...
There are more than 275 papers in the CRC library to guide you in developing and maintaining clinical privileges for practitioners at your organization. Following is an excerpt from a new white paper, Physician assistants in critical care, Practice area 442.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, upheld a trial court judgment and four pretrial orders relating to a patient's claims of medical malpractice and medical battery against physicians, and independent claims against a hospital...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 17
Physicians in 2012 helped boost the U.S. economy, creating close to 10 million jobs, generating $1.6 trillion in sales revenue, $775 billion in wages and benefits, and $65 billion in state and local tax revenue, according to an AMA study completed in conjunction with state medical associations...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 16
The American College of Physicians (ACP) last week debuted a High Value Care Coordination Toolkit designed to enable more effective and patient-centered communication among primary care physicians (PCPs) and subspecialists. The toolkit includes five components.
