In the face of a healthcare provider shortage, Montana lawmakers have introduced a bill to give physician assistants (PA) more independence to practice unsupervised.

The Credentialing Resource Center team is seeking experts to review the official report for the 2022 MSP Salary Survey. We’re looking for MSPs, physician leaders, practitioners, quality professionals, and others with relevant experience who are willing to comment on the findings of the report and how the data reflects what they’re seeing in the field. The CRC team will credit all quotes published in the report and feature you in the report’s expert contributors section. Don’t miss this chance to get involved and give back to your peers in the profession! Email editor Son Hoang at shoang@hcpro.com if you’re interested or to learn more!

The number of privileging disputes occurring in hospitals is growing rapidly. It’s easy to understand this trend if you examine how medicine has evolved. In the “good old days,” physicians of all specialties had a defined area of turf on the playing field and specialties didn’t cross those boundaries. The acrimony that can arise from such disputes often leaves scars and wounds on medical staffs that may not be prepared to deal with the change and conflict associated with this challenge.

Foreign national physicians and international medical graduates who are pursuing employment or seeking to become clinically active in the United States most often apply for an H-1B visa, which allows a foreign national to enter the U.S. for professional-level employment for up to six years. This temporary worker visa category requires sponsorship directly by the employer. 

This month we continue our dive into the pain points that provider enrollment professionals face. During the recent National Provider Enrollment Virtual Event, speakers fielded attendee-submitted questions about the processes involved with enrolling practitioners and facilities with both government and private payers and provided best practices to flourish in the role.