If you chair meetings for your medical staff, or if you work with or supervise someone who does, you need to be aware of common meeting management styles. The chair’s meeting management style can have a tremendous impact on meeting attendance, participation, and outcomes. The most effective chairs assess the purpose and goals of a meeting and then adopt the most suitable management style.

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.

Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of medical school applicants rose 17.8%, according to Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). While the number of applicants and first-year enrollees for the 2022-2023 school year has reverted to pre-pandemic levels, several traditionally underrepresented groups are seeing increases in first-year enrollees.

In 2023 and beyond, credentialing specialists will face the reality that more and more applicants being recruited by hospitals and vetted by credentialing personnel and bodies will have significant concerns, blemishes, pink flags, and red flags in their backgrounds.

The California Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a trial court’s decision striking a physician’s complaint that a hospital falsely reported him to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), finding that the hospital’s actions were protected by the state’s anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) statute.

The plaintiff, Gary R. Wisner, MD, filed a complaint alleging that Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center (the “Hospital”) falsely reported to the NPDB that he surrendered his clinical privileges while under investigation.

Vascular and interventional radiology is a subspecialty of diagnostic radiology that encompasses using minimally invasive image-guided procedures to diagnose and treat abnormalities and anomalies in nearly every organ system.