Deviating from physician credentialing best practices puts healthcare organizations at risk for claims of negligence. Although physician credentialing may seem like a tedious administrative task, poor ...

Credentialing physicians for a surgery center is quite an undertaking, considering the amount of information that must be double-checked before a provider is accepted into the facility. Dare Hartsell, ...

Physician recruitment is one of the key growth strategies for ASCs. Surgery centers can either attract physicians to bring cases or new physician investors to boost case volume, add specialties or ...

Texas is the latest state to create a simplified physician credentialing system for health plans. The goal is to draw more physicians into Medicaid programs. The bureaucratic hassle of applying to ...

Credentialing is an essential process for hospitals employing physicians. While tedious, hospitals that prioritize credentialing achieve greater return on investment than their counterparts that do ...

Although rare, issues of malpractice, substandard care, and even the extreme case of “Dr. Death” are very real events that can happen in the medical community. Since the launch of the National ...

It’s that time of year again—resident recruiting season. Whenever residency programs receive ap-plications from prospective trainees, our clients ask how they should gather and validate ...

, the nation’s first and largest telehealth provider with more than 5 million members, announced today it received certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for physician ...

In 2014, internists went into open revolt in response to the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) new maintenance of certification (MOC) program (a model of measuring continuous learning). The ...

A typical job posting for a nurse practitioner (NP) position might call for an NP with experience in managing cardiac conditions. But it's not always clear to job-seeking NPs or prospective employers ...