Community hospitals don’t have to invite physicians to be owners to reap the benefits of physician-hospital alignment, quality patient care, and cost savings that physician-owned facilities experience.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 1
If you are the medical staff on the receiving end of a request for a practitioner’s privilege list, it is important to respond to that request in a way that that adheres to policies and respects the medical staff culture.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 52
As an MSP, I’m often asked to evaluate and diagnose problems that prevent the medical staff services department (MSSD) from operating at its best. I tend to think of the MSSD as the skeletal system that keeps the medical staff and hospital upright and mobile. As such, it is vulnerable to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 52
Is your medical staff services department going paperless? Let us know by taking this quick poll. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the Web page to view the poll!
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 52
The appellate review committee or panel, which is usually made up of members of the governing board, plays a limited role when a physician appeals a hearing judgment to the governing board, says John Harwell, Esq., a healthcare attorney based in Manhattan Beach, CA. The committee’s primary goal...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 52
Focus on the actions taken during the meeting, rather than the discussion that led to the decision, suggests Halina J. Henning, CPMSM, CPCS, senior manager of medical staff administration at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “It boils down to what decisions the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 52
Whenever a new year approaches, I think about my dad’s perspective on New Year’s resolutions. He believes that if you want to change your life, you should start now—there is no reason to wait for January 1. Although he has a valid point, you...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 51
Economic credentialing assesses, as a qualifying factor, the financial impact of accepting a physician onto the hospital’s medical staff. Although the American Medical Association defines economic credentialing as an evaluation of economic factors unrelated to quality of care, this is generally...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 51
Have you ever found yourself in a brainstorming session during which so many ideas were flying around the room that it seemed impossible to organize them all? Try using an affinity diagram to group a large number of ideas into organizational categories.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 51
The Joint Commission released a draft of standard MS.01.01.01 (formerly MS.1.20) and its 36 EPs on its Web site for field review last week. The field review will be open until January 28, 2010. This review gives...
