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.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
"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
Illinois medical regulators have suspended the medical license of psychiatrist Michael Reinstein, who prescribed more of the most powerful and riskiest antipsychotic drug clozapine than any other doctor in the country. The state’s medical disciplinary board recommended the sanction in May...
A surgeon with an alleged history of bad behavior must pay a nurse $5,000 in compensatory damages and $35,000 for punitive damages after kicking her and leaving a bruise, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled. The court upheld a previous decision that ordered cardiothoracic surgeon Robert T. Fried...
Is your organization looking for family medicine practitioners or internal medicine physicians? Wondering why the search is taking so long? Merritt Hawkins’ “2014 Review Of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” spots some interesting trends that might already be...
The growing physician assistant (PA) field has led some medical schools to expand their PA programs in order to offset the looming physician shortage. Northern Arizona University will use a recent $1.5 million grant to expand teaching space for its PA program. Meanwhile, Lynchburg College in...
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that remove criminal sanctions for the medical use of marijuana, define eligibility for such use, and allow some means of access. Three more—Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania—have pending medical marijuana legislation or...
