We are currently seeking industry experts to speak at our upcoming conference, the 2023 National Provider Enrollment Forum! The Forum will take place August 7-8, 2023, at the Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center. This two-day, can’t-miss event will deliver fresh and valuable content for nearly every title and function in the provider enrollment industry. To apply, click here and fill out the application by Friday, January 13, 2023. Click here for more details. Please contact Son Hoang at shoang@hcpro.com with any questions.

The Joint Commission’s time frame for evaluating licensed practitioners’ ability to provide care, treatment, and services has been updated from two years to three years.

By having your medical staff members fill out a conflict of interest disclosure form every year, the medical staff will be kept abreast of any relationships that might be considered a conflict. Here is some sample conflict of interest policy language you can customize for your own organization’s needs.

Find out what’s happening in the world of federal healthcare regulations by reviewing some recent headlines from across the country.

• Physicians charged with attempting to pass health information to Russia
• Resident’s license suspended for falsifying recommendation letters
• Physician who attempted to flee to Mexico sentenced to prison
• Anesthesiologist arrested on charges of tampering with IV bags

The conviction of former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught in March for negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult due to a medical error made headlines nationwide. Organizations such as the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and the American Nurses Association decried the conviction as harmful to the profession and the wrong approach to handling unintentional acts.