Patients often go online to find diagnoses, drug information, and details about their physicians. But do professional standards prevent physicians from doing the same to patients? Sometimes, the practice is acceptable—most other times, it isn’t, according to the authors of a paper in the...
The new and very much improved Credentialing Resource Center website is on the launchpad, and following field tests, you’ll be able to see what we’ve done.
Which brings me to this electronic weekly. Your Credentialing Resource Center Insider is not only getting a new look...
State healthcare profession regulatory boards and agencies are now required to submit an attestation for all of the health professions they regulate, the Health Resouces and Services Administration (HRSA) reported earlier this month. Prior to January 26, only professions that were not part...
A jury in Palm Beach County, Florida has returned an $8.5 million malpractice verdict against concierge medicine provider MDVIP. The jury found MDVIP liable for the negligence of one of its physicians, who was sued for misdiagnosing the cause of a patient’s leg pain, leading to its...
Anesthesiologist opposition to Maintenance of Certification (MOC) has grown at a grassroots level, in sync with opposition by other specialists to their own MOC programs. Many clinicians seem unaware of this pushback, including society leaders, but that is likely to change, wrote Robert E....
A federal appeals court today decided in favor of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a closely watched antitrust case (FTC v. St. Luke’s Health System) involving the acquisition of a physician practice by a hospital system. The FTC and others challenged the acquisition by St. Luke’s...
