If you are a medical staff leader, you may think that follow-up as a result of an MEC meeting is not your job. You may not write follow-up letters (you might sign them-but not write them!) and it is undoubtedly not your responsibility to write the minutes, etc. However, as a medical staff leader...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 38
A consent agenda is a tool that can be used to save meeting time and to help assure that committee time is spent on items that require discussion. Consent agendas expedite approval of routine, non-controversial business brought before the committee. The use of a consent agenda places...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 37
We are going to spend the next few issues of MS Leader Connection discussing the topic of how to have great Medical Executive Committee (MEC) meetings. And the good news is that the principles that are used to make MEC meetings efficient and productive can be applied to other medical staff...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 36
Arguably, culture drives behavior and behavior drives results. Therefore, to achieve a truly effective medical staff, physician leaders must proactively mold and lead the medical staff culture so that it simultaneously drives the desired results of physician success and hospital success.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 34
Assuming a leadership position has its burdens, as anyone involved heavily in medical staff affairs will readily attest. It is important to be frank and open with physician recruits about the challenges and risks inherent in leadership roles. Clearly articulating these concerns helps new and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 33
What is important to understand about Stark is that it does not eliminate opportunities for appropriate physician-hospital collaboration, it simply requires that such collaboration be accomplished through carefully structured and documented arrangements that are "arms length," transparent, and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 32
The Stark Amendments were created to prevent physicians from referring federally funded patients to a laboratory (Stark I) or more generally to a designated health service (Stark II) in which physicians or their immediate families have a financial interest. These amendments, in conjunction with...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 31
With the evolving roles of many of the allied health disciplines, more allied health practitioners (AHP) are being licensed as indepedent practitioners by the state. As a licensed independent practitioner (LIP), the AHP generally functions as a primary-care practitioner and by state authority...
