With the changing demographics of the hospital medical staff comes growing challenges. Now HCPro is offering a pair of resources to help you meet these challenges. Next week you’ll have an opportunity to get answers to your questions about aging physicians and fair policies.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 19
Hospitals have increasingly acquired physician practices during the past decade, arguing that doing so helps them coordinate care and control costs. However, when hospitals buy physician practices, the result is usually higher hospital prices and increased spending by privately insured patients...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 19
“What we have seen in our work with physicians as we report data on their performance is something akin to watching someone go through the stages of grief,” wrote Robert Graham, MD, national program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative,...
Most hospital policies regard the autopsy as dead since the mid-1970s, when The Joint Commission lifted its requirement that hospitals perform autopsies on 20% of inpatient deaths. Even teaching hospitals have reduced the number they do for training medical students. Rare is the hospital...
If you missed our March webcast, Practicing Medicine Longer: Legal and Clinical Considerations for an Aging Physician Population, tune in to hear the entire presentation by Elizabeth “Libby” Snelson, JD, and Stephen H. Miller, MD, MPH, on May 14 from 1-2:30 p.m. ET. This is a...
The American Board of Podiatric Surgery (ABPS) will adopt the trade name American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery (ABFAS) effective July 1. The new name, which was approved by The Joint Committee on the Recognition of Specialty Boards, clarifies the anatomical scope of the podiatric surgical...
