Educational peer review can help identify, track, and resolve inappropriate clinical performance and medical errors in their early stages, increasing patient safety and overall quality of care. A hospital’s medical staff is charged with ensuring that...
As regulatory bodies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services make policy changes that allow for greater reimbursement, and more practitioners start to employ telemedicine services, the telehealth industry is seeing unprecedented growth—largely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic...
The #MeToo movement has encouraged a wide range of industries that once looked at sexual harassment as “part of the job” to start taking steps to improve working conditions. Healthcare is among those industries that are not only finally recognizing the extent of the problem but looking for...
Any MSP will tell you that they wear many hats. Frequently, MSPs have their hands in a little bit of everything related to credentialing, contracting, provider enrollment, and the medical staff itself. Deborah Ormay, CPCS, CPMSM, a writer and speaker with more than 30 years of managed care...
When we hear the terms frontline workers or people on the front lines, we often picture medical scrubs and stethoscopes, physicians covered head to toe in personal protective equipment, nurses treating patients, and...
According to preliminary results from the 2020 MSP Salary Survey, MSPs’ salaries are holding steady or even increasing in some ranges, which is reassuring to see in the uncertain financial climate that the COVID-19 pandemic has created for many healthcare organizations.
Suspensions are an important tool that medical staffs can utilize for several reasons. First, suspensions explain the circumstances under which the medical staff will suspend a practitioner’s privileges because of failure to comply with one or more administrative requirements. Examples might...
Last year set the record for the number of fatal drug overdoses in the United States. According to preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 71,000 people across the country died of...
The evolving relationship between physicians and hospitals is a far cry from that which gave rise to the organized medical staff in the early 20th century. From the 1920s into the 1980s, joining a medical staff was an essential step for most physicians. During this time, hospital privileges...
Last month, Medical Staff Briefing featured part one of a Q&A with Jonathan Goldner, DO, MMM, FCCP, FCCM. This Q&A centered on how MSPs and physician executives can successfully implement an aging practitioners policy at their organizations. The conversation continues in this second...
