Throughout the years, many fields have struggled with the increased cost of living and inflation compared to their compensation, and MSPs are no different. Many MSPs and credentialing professionals have advocated for higher salaries or hourly rates, but have received little to no increase over...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 34, Issue 5
With 23 years in the field—from hospitals to telehealth to solution architecture—Travonya Quarles, CPMSM, CPCS, LSSYB, aPHR, CPLS, knows the credentialing world from every angle.
Burnout can often manifest in subtle ways, such as declining productivity or resistance to change. This is true in medical staff services too. Dawn Anderson, CPCS, CPMSM, director of credentialing, privileging, and licensing at Ob Hospitalist Group, witnessed this with her credentialing team.
Effective communication is essential for ensuring patient safety and quality care. The Joint Commission reports that communication failures are among the most frequent causes of harmful medical errors. Not surprisingly, these errors can lead to poor patient outcomes such as misdiagnoses, patient...
Your organization should assess bylaws on an annual basis and whenever a regulatory body introduces a new standard or makes changes to an existing standard. However, a thorough assessment of your bylaws can occur less frequently.
Proactive recruitment means finding physicians on the medical staff who have the ability to lead but whose talents may not have come to the notice of others. Using surveys is one tool to ferret out potential leaders. Questionnaires distributed to the entire medical staff at periodic intervals...
Healthcare providers often find themselves on the receiving end of verbal, emotional, or physical abuse at work. Despite making up only 10% of the workforce, healthcare workers experience 48% of nonfatal injuries due to workplace violence (WPV). While the drivers and causes of violence are...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 34, Issue 4
Typically, recommendations for external peer review (EPR) arise from peer review committees that are faced with issues they can't resolve—lack of specialty expertise, conflicts of interest and other potential legal or credibility issues.
