Taking the Certified Professional Medical Services Management (CPMSM) or Certified Provider Credentialing Specialist (CPCS) exams is a major undertaking. Many MSPs start studying a year or more before taking either exam and still feel nervous when they arrive at the test site.
Fine wine might ripen with age, but peer review processes left alone for decades go sour. This is the lesson that Tucson (AZ) Medical Center (TMC) learned when its department-based peer review process became so punitive and ineffective that some physicians stopped performing specific procedures...
Last month, I wrote about a problem many organizations face when implementing clinical service lines. The way many clinical service lines are currently structured, it is unclear who owns the responsibility of ensuring physician performance—the organized medical staff, through its relevant...
The hospitalist shortage has hospitalist program managers and medical directors everywhere wondering just how many hoops they have to jump through to bring a new physician on board. If you've unsuccessfully tried offering traditional financial recruitment incentives, such as hefty base salaries...
Since the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in October 2009 that it will no longer pay for inpatient or outpatient consultation codes starting in January, the hospitalist community has been aflutter with questions. One of the biggest questions is whether the coding...
