The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) recently released its finalized model legislation to create an interstate compact to provide physicians a streamlined process for applying for licenses in other states.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
"EHRs are a great idea. But we should have allowed the market to convince physicians of their usefulness. Instead, we have companies developing products to impress administrators. We have EHRs focused on billing rather than patient care. We have EHRs that do not help physicians care...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
This week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider features a few items that are quite critical of electronic health records (EHR) adoption. Physicians have complained that EHRs are more time consuming and don’t help improve patient care...
The newest issue of CRCJ is here, and includes the first installment of our look at credentialing practitioners in hospital-owned clinics. This was the topic of a recent Credentialing Resource Center Insider Editor’s Note that generated a high level and variety of...
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA) this week announced their approval of CMS’ recommended expansion of telemedicine coverage for Medicare beneficiaries. The AHA and ATA separately addressed the possible telemedicine expansion in CMS’ proposed...
The number of uninsured is expected to decline by nearly half from 45 million in 2012 to 23 million by 2023 as a result of the coverage expansions associated with the Affordable Care Act, according to a report from the CMS Office of the Actuary. Health spending growth is projected to remain...
An Iowa Board of Medicine administrative rule banning abortion through a teleconferencing system is politically motivated and “based on a conservative-leaning panel appointed by a conservative governor in opposition to abortion,” not on medical practices that would benefit rural patients,...
Nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) were originally envisioned to provide primary care services in underserved areas. To gauge NP and PA activity in non-primary care roles, Brett Coldiron, MD, and Mondhipa Ratnarathorn, MD, studied the scope of independent procedural...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 36
