National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week starts Sunday. Although I hope you’re not in the office on Sunday, I also hope your medical staff services department gets a week of star treatment from physicians, other departments, and the organizations you deal with every day. To celebrate the...
Federal officials have fined University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System $470,000 for allowing an anesthesiologist who was banned from Medicare and other federal programs to treat patients and bill the government for their care. The anesthesiologist at Ronald Reagan UCLA...
For many workers, healthcare employment is going the way of fast food and retail: unstable schedules, punitive employers, and rigid management. Nursing assistants, overwhelmingly women and relatively low-paid, are hardest hit, according to University of Massachusetts sociologists...
I’ve been poring over my notes from the 2014 NAMSS Educational Conference and Exhibition, and discovered a quote from Hugh Greeley’s Tuesday presentation, “This is What We Live For: Effectively Dealing with Our Most Complex Applicants and Re-Applicants,” that stands out. Describing the MSPs...
If you’re attending the NAMSS 38th Educational Conference and Exhibition next week in New Orleans, what are you looking forward to the most? Is it the keynotes? The sessions and panel discussions? Maybe the networking opportunities? The camaraderie of hundreds of people who know what you do...
With the proliferation of online review sites and message boards, it's become increasingly commonplace for patients to post their thoughts about physicians for the world to see. When a negative comment threatens to damage a physician's reputation, it's important to choose the...
