The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires covered entities (CE) to protect and confidentially handle patients’ protected health information (PHI). MSPs, physicians, and their organizations must remain vigilant or risk violating HIPAA. Luckily, HIPAA is a fairly cut...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 12
I started working with doctors as a college student. During the summers, the company-owned hospital where my mom worked paid me pretty well to work in the outpatient reception area, preparing medical records for patient appointments and then filing them. This small but creditable hospital only...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 12
As healthcare organizations continue to redraw and dismantle the department lines that once divided medical staff credentialing and provider enrollment, the growing continent of MSPs driving both functions must get up to speed on all relevant standards and determine how to achieve the most...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 12
Recent CMS revisions to the State Operations Manual for Hospitals are zeroing in on the agency’s definition of a “hospital.” According to one expert, this new survey guidance may be an attempt to define the parameters of a microhospital.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 12
Representatives from The Joint Commission, URAC, DNV GL, the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP), and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) took the stage at the 2017 NAMSS Educational Conference & Exhibition in October to share what they have learned from the...
