Two Massachusetts sisters faced arraignment in Middlesex Superior Court earlier this week, charged with using false psychologist credentials and fraudulently billing federal, state, and local agencies more than $580,000, according to the attorney general’s office. Neither is a licensed...
From HCAHPS to healthcare surveys, hospitals seem to be swimming in data. The question is, where is the comparable data for ambulatory surgical centers (ASC)? For ASCs, the most prominent source of National Quality Forum (NQF)-endorsed measures is the ASC Quality Collaborative (ASCQC). The...
Medical sales representatives have long had a close relationship with physicians, providing services as surgical consultants as well as medtech dealers. However, that dynamic may be about to change in a big way. For example, Loma Linda University Medical Center in California is getting deep...
Federal regulators are reversing course and will resume publicly releasing data on hospital mistakes, including when foreign objects are left in patients' bodies or patients were give the wrong blood type. USA Today reported last month that CMS had stopped publicly reporting a host of...
A couple of weeks ago I asked readers whether they thought about work during time off. Their answers ranged from “what time off?” and “I not only think about work during time away, I also do it” (which made up the...
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) last week announcd a completed draft of model legislation to create an Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. The compact would expedite the process of issuing licenses for physicians who wish to practice in multiple states. The model legislation...
