New OPPE and FPPE standards for acute care and critical access hospitals accredited by the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) may look familiar. Most facilities conduct competence assessment and peer evaluation in one form or another. Now, however, they must...
The ruling allows physicians to bring damages claims against hospitals before exhausting administrative proceedings, a decision some say could weaken the peer review process
The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) is implementing new requirements for competence assessment, including OPPE and FPPE. Medical Staff Briefing spoke recently with Karen Y. Beem, MS, RN, Standards Interpretation Specialist at HFAP, in Chicago,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 16
The latest issue of Medical Staff Briefing is here, and if there’s a common theme throughout, it’s information sharing—what to share, how to share it, and when. The lead-off Q&A with Karen Beem of the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) sheds light on HFAP’s new...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 15
The MSP Salary Survey is still open, so these results may shift somewhat, but a clearer salary picture is emerging as MSPs weigh in. Early unofficial tabulation shows California has the most MSPs making more than $100,000, by a margin of more than 2 to 1 compared to other states. So far, 29% of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 14
Today’s Editor’s Note is from a blog by William F. Mills, MD, MMM, CPE, FACPE, FAAFP, senior vice president of quality and professional affairs for Upper Allegheny Health System and co-author of The Medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 4
When it comes to disclosing disciplinary actions taken against a physician, no news can be bad news in some circumstances; meaning, if an entity does not respond to requests for verification of the practitioner's status, there may be a reason for the non-response. Appropriate...
A recent Pennsylvania court decision has shed new light on how the court system looks at employee contracts between a physician and a hospital, with additional intriguing considerations regarding the role an NPDB report plays in a physician's termination.
Requirements for licenses to practice medicine differ from state to state, and even when information is available across state lines, license portability can be administratively burdensome. The Federation of State Medical Boards' (FSMB) Interstate Medical Licensure Compact...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 13
With a week’s worth of survey responses in hand, I thought I’d share some very early results:
41% of respondents say their department reports to the chief medical officer/vice president of medical affairs. Among those who oversee other departments or services, close to 50% oversee...
