"We tell our patients to avoid stress, to not work too hard, to balance their professional and personal lives. Yet many of us who dole out this advice completely ignore it ourselves."
Robert M. Wachter, MD, discusses advice that physicians give but don't...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Medicaid patients who visit the emergency department (ED) are seeking treatment for urgent and serious problems, according to a new report from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
According to an analysis by Modern Healthcare, using the most recent salary figures from 2012, the total cash compensation of 147 non-profit hospital CEOs increased an average of 24% from the previous year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ordered cardiothoracic surgeon Robert T. Fried, MD, to pay $40,000 to a nurse at King’s Daughter Medical Center (KDMC) in Ashland, Kentucky, who sued him for assault and battery.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
“Every day clinicians yell at nurses. They bully, they prod, they rush off the phone before fully answering questions. I have done it many times myself. The phenomena is so common that most nurses and secretaries accept it as part of the job.”
Jordan Grumet...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
This week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider features a piece about a surgeon ordered to pay $40,000 to a nurse for kicking her. From the nurse’s testimony, the surgeon had a history of this type of behavior. I don’t work in a hospital so maybe I’m a little out...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 32
A new health clinic in Savannah, Georgia opened its doors this week to free visits for government employees of Chatham County. Employees who are covered by the county’s medical plan (about 1,400) will be eligible for co-pay free visits to the clinic to receive primary care services. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 32
A significant portion of updates in the Fiscal Year 2015 IPPS final rule pertain to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, and the Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program.
"The IPPS rule speaks...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 32
"My son was able to sleep during the entire visit, because the doctor came to the house. The doctor came into my daughter's room and conducted the visit there, where she was comfortable.”
Elizabeth Krusic, a mother from Seal Beach, California, tells...
