“Once upon a time, in a medical school far far away, I was taught that my sacred oath and calling was to the patient. The one patient. That has not changed. What I see now, what all doctors must understand, is that the individual patient, that one patient, that precious, irreplaceable...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
CMS has released a proposal to strengthen the Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) by placing more emphasis on primary care services and promoting transitions to performance-based risk arrangements. CMS proposes to refine the way Medicare beneficiaries are assigned to...
December marks the 15th anniversary of “To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System,” the landmark report from the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine that estimated up to 98,000 Americans die from preventable mistakes in hospitals every year. “It is time to know if...
About 50,000 people are alive today because U.S. hospitals committed 17% fewer medical errors in 2013 than in 2010, government health officials said on Tuesday. The lower rate of fatalities from poor care and mistakes was one of several "historic improvements" in hospital quality and safety...
Some influential healthcare groups are urging Florida's state lawmakers to expand the use of telehealth—web and videoconferencing technology that allows physicians and other healthcare providers to treat patients—as a way to save money and deal with a growing shortage of physicians. Several...
HCPro is working on a new book of FPPE forms and tools, and we’re inviting you to be a part of it. Our goal for this book is to feature policies, dashboards, indicator lists, and other forms your organization uses to conduct FPPE. The new book will be structured similarly to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
Okon Umana, MD, pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid more than $13 million from 2009 to 2012 for physical therapy, diagnostic testing, and other services that were unnecessary or did not actually occur.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
Fifty thousand fewer hospital patients died due to avoidable errors from 2011 to 2013, according to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week.
