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CMS expands medical staff definition to include APRNs, PAs

Among a raft of changes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued this week, the agency controversially expanded its definition of the medical staff, allowing nonphysician practitioners

Six radiologists sue Sutter Health over hospital privileges

Six physicians associated with Radiological Associates of Sacramento Medical Group, Inc., have filed two lawsuits against Sutter Health, a 26-hospital system in Northern California, for banning them

Study: Hospitals 'dropped the ball' on disciplining doctors

Despite its being in existence for more than 17 years, nearly half of hospitals have never submitted a single doctors name to a federal database that collects information on hospital disciplinary