A look at the job duties of MSPs, including what non-medical staff service functions they oversee. According to the survey, one-third of MSPs oversee other departments, with the most common being continuing medical education. According to Anne Roberts, CPCS, CPMSM, this is a...
HCPro's MSP Salary Survey asks respondents to name the entities that accredit their organization. Since 2012, the percentage of respondents who have selected DNV has doubled, from 4% of respondents to 8% in 2015. DNV entered the accreditation fray in 2008, when it was granted deeming status by...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 8
CMS states that temporary privileges may be granted as allowed by state law, medical staff bylaws, and rules and regulations. The Joint Commission is more prescriptive than CMS in its standards for granting temporary privileges, specifying the reasons they may be granted, and the requirement for...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 8
The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook was released in April and included significant changes that may have repercussions for medical staff bylaws. MSPs need to examine the revised edition closely to understand what the changes mean for their organizations.
The Medicare provider database reportedly lists thousands of doctors and other providers as graduates from medical schools that have been defunct for a century, according to a MedPage Today story posted last week. Many of these errors were apparently caused by the practitioner...
