In the first half of 2022, 7.5 million Medicare users accessed telehealth services to receive healthcare. During that same time, there were about 45 million Medicare telehealth-eligible users. This is according to the Medicare Telehealth Trends Report, which looked at telehealth usage by reviewing Medicare Fee-for-Service Part B claims data from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2022.

Does your medical executive committee suffer through long meetings, unproductive diatribes, filibusters, broken records (i.e., bringing up the same old issues and rehashing them over and over), and complaints from members that the meetings are just too long? If so, you may want to try a few of the following techniques used by your colleagues to control meeting length and content.

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!

We’d all like to think every piece of information that comes to the medical staff during the peer review process is legitimate and devoid of hearsay and invalid sources. Would be nice, right?

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