January 2023 is turning out to be a big month in the world of medical staff services, and it’s going to kick off a whole year of interesting developments.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 9
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (the “Court”) recently ruled that a cardiothoracic surgeon failed to provide sufficient evidence that he was racially discriminated against as an American-born Caucasian. His two other claims of retaliation and tortious interference of contract...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 6
The Ohio Court of Appeals, Eighth Appellate District (the “Court”), affirmed a lower court's judgment that a clinic could not claim peer review privilege to withhold documents it was being asked to produce in a malpractice case, nor could it claim that the documents were protected from discovery...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 6
You’ve been chipping away at it for years, and now you finally feel like you have ironed out all of the kinks in your FPPE process. It is a well-oiled machine, and even when you get questions from practitioners, you can usually find the answers. Then one day, you notice that an orthopedic...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 5
As more hospitals merge into larger health systems, these systems will have to decide whether to maintain a separate medical staff at each hospital or to merge medical staffs—partially or fully. CMS announced in 2014 that medical staffs in the same health system functioning under a single-system...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 4
Physicians often move from facility to facility, be it inside a single healthcare system or across different ones. So, how can hospitals in the same region share credentialing information if a physician applies at more than one hospital in the area?
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 3
In the Federal Register last summer, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made a significant move that impacts Joint Commission Surveys. On July 17, 2020, in Volume 85, Number 138 under the section Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Application From the Joint Commission for...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 12
The American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted new policies recently, including prevention of bullying among healthcare professionals and recognition of racism as a public health threat. According to The Joint Commission, intimidating and disruptive behavior in healthcare settings is...