A bipartisan group of 16 U.S. Senators has publicly commended state medical boards and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) for their recent efforts to streamline the licensing process for physicians who wish to practice in multiple states, thus helping facilitate the use of...
The public now has until January 31 to submit suggestions for revisions to the NPDB Guidebook. The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) guidebook will incorporate legislative and regulatory changes adopted since its last edition (2001), including the merger of the NPDB with the...
As an MSP, your daily practice no doubt involves a mix of sophisticated electronic systems and low-tech methods for gathering and reporting information. How are your physicians doing with that? An...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 4
Legislation that would allow physicians to apologize for bad treatment outcomes—without those apologies being used against them in malpractice lawsuits—is again under consideration in Rhode Island. The bill wouldn't stop malpractice suits, but would make apologies inadmissible in lawsuits. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 4
Canada ranks last among 11 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries in a new survey in terms of how quickly people can get an appointment to see their regular family physicians. The survey, titled “Where You Live Matters: Canadian views on healthcare quality,” was...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 4
Quality emergency care availability is threatened by a wide range of factors, including shrinking capacity and an ever-increasing demand for services, according to “America’s Emergency Care Environment, A State-by-State Report Card,” released by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 4
A bitter professional dispute has impaired The University of Arizona Medical Center’s world-famous transplant services. The hospital’s heart transplant program is on hiatus, as is its lung transplant program. Two other programs recently closed after the doctor who created them—department of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 4
Access to care could be considered the theme of this week’s edition. One report shows that the United States received a D- on the American College of Emergency Physicians report card when it comes to access to emergency care. Another survey, based on data from the 2013 Commonwealth Fund...
Many medical staffs are not prepared for an aging physician population, but help is on the way! Join us for Practicing Medicine Longer: Legal and Clinical Considerations for an Aging Physician Population, a webcast to be held Tuesday, March 11, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m....
