Quality measures have been added to Physician Compare, a website that helps patients search for information about physicians and other healthcare professionals, CMS announced last week. Sixty-six group practices and 141 accountable care organizations (ACO) now have quality data publicly...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 9
Connecticut has been so successful in getting people to sign up for health insurance through its online marketplace that it is setting up a consulting business to help other states build and operate websites where people can compare and buy private insurance policies. The Connecticut exchange...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 9
CMS last week extended to March 31 the comment period for its proposed Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers rule. “We believe that it is important to allow ample time for all sections of the public to comment on this proposed rule....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 9
Families may decide to use a retail-based health clinic because they believe it is convenient and less expensive, but according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), these clinics do not provide children with the high-quality, regular preventive healthcare children need. In an updated...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 9
Medical homes take a team approach to care, with the help of everyone from nurses to front desk staff focusing on preventing and managing chronic disease. The goal is to avoid costly and preventable complications. However, a three-year pilot study of medical home practices in Pennsylvania found...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 9
The medical home model has been held up as a good way to improve patient care while reducing costs and encouraging teams of stakeholders to collaborate. So where is the evidence? A study published this week found little improvement in quality of care and no reductions in cost. Although the study...
Recent news includes attempts to simplify care, both for physicians in rural hospitals and for New Jersey patients wondering whether there’s a “doctor” in the house. Another simple idea in the headlines this week might not be so simple, however. A Midwestern entrepreneur’s idea for...
CMS last week released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on potential payment and care delivery models that focus on outpatient specialty care and complex/chronic disease management care. The RFI could affect a broad group of healthcare stakeholders,including physician specialty...
Healthcare organizations of all kinds are being routinely attacked and compromised by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, according to a new study by Norse, a Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm, and SANS, a security research institute. Networks and Internet-connected devices in hospitals...
Rural and small hospitals may get relief from a federal rule that requires a physician to be present in a department during routine procedures, such as blood transfusions and some immunizations. Critics have argued that the law, passed in 2009, could stretch physicians too thin and could lead to...
