APPs’ evolving roles on the medical team present unique challenges during credentialing and privileging processes. Learn how to circumvent these snags by attending APRNs and PAs: Here to Stay and Part of the Team at HCPro’s 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium.
This week, CRC Daily focuses on allied health professionals (AHP). Today’s excerpt from Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider describes the challenges medical staff offices face when assessing the ongoing performance of AHPs, as well as some field-tested strategies that...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
Telepsychiatry shows promise as a way for hospitals to deliver scarce services to vulnerable patients, particularly in medically underserved areas. Often, telepsychiatry enables practitioners to evaluate and treat people who otherwise might not receive mental healthcare. For most organizations,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPMSM, CPCS, FACHE, presented "MSP Competencies" at NAMSS' 39th Annual Educational Conference and Exhibition, held in Seattle in October. The following is adapted from her presentation. Part one, which appeared in last month's CRCJ, included the...
The Second District Court of Appeal of Florida (the "Court") has held that external peer review reports are not discoverable because they do not fall within the scope of the amendment of the state's constitution that preempts Florida's peer review privilege. Approved by Florida voters in 2004,...
Granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without fully verifying their credentials verification can put healthcare organizations and their patients in danger?clinically and legally.
At the 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium held April 7?8 in Orlando,...