The AOA and ACGME have begun the process of creating a single accreditation system. The final result could be a simplified verification process, but a lot must happen before the system is fully implemented?and the target date for completion is June 2020.
Medical staffs across the country have found that establishing their own private treasury accounts funded by staff dues and application/reappointment fees has helped them maintain autonomy from hospital administration. This separation has become especially apparent when conflicts requiring...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
A report by Moody’s Investor Service showed that the income for nonprofit hospitals declined for the second year in row in 2013, while the median revenue growth fell to the lowest percentage since the agency began tracking it 23 years ago.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently announced that it has decreased its 10-year projected cost of Medicare and Medicaid by $89 billion due to reduced medical services and labor costs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
For the second year in row, the average physician turnover rate remained at 6.8 percent for 2013, according to a survey by the American Medical Group Association (AMGA). The rate is the highest on record since the AMGA began tracking it in 2005.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
“The difficulty of getting into medical school ensures that most doctors are people who naturally drive themselves very hard and demand excellence from themselves and everyone around them.”
Henry M. Kuerer, MD, PhD, FACS, discusses the causes of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 35
I recently read a CNN article about researchers developing a surgical “black box” for the operating room, similar to those found in airplanes. The black box would use cameras to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked CMS to postpone the deadline for physicians and teaching hospitals to register and review the Open Payments system to March 31, 2015.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Arizona-based Carondelet Health Network has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations that two of its hospitals submitted false claims for inpatient rehabilitation services to Medicare and other federal programs from 2004 to 2011.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Community Health Systems (CHS) announced this week that Chinese hackers stole the personal data of 4.5 million patients. The data included Social Security numbers, addresses, birth dates, and phone numbers but did not include medical data or credit card numbers.
