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
In a series focused on how professionals in the medical staff services industry are overcoming unique COVID-19 challenges, Medical Staff Briefing is sitting down with physician leaders, MSPs, quality professionals, educators, and consultants across the country to hear about their experiences....
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...
The foundation of the Physician Performance Pyramid, as described in Part 1, is to appoint competent physicians to the medical staff. The more time and effort that is spent here, the easier the rest of the medical staff leader’s job will be. If not enough time is devoted to selecting competent...
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...
Managing the performance of disruptive physicians is rarely accomplished with a single intervention. When responding to professional misconduct, physician leaders should follow a policy of intervening early and often. Follow-up with a practitioner should occur in the immediate wake of an...
