Throughout the “Fair Hearings 101” series, CPRLI has covered various aspects of the fair hearing process, from what language medical staffs need to include in the bylaws to how to choose the right hearing panel members. Although these topics are important, medical staff leaders...
Taking the Certified Professional Medical Services Management (CPMSM) or Certified Provider Credentialing Specialist (CPCS) exams is a major undertaking. Many MSPs start studying a year or more before taking either exam and still feel nervous when they arrive at the test site.
As a medical staff leader or MSP, if you had to sum up your duties in three sentences, could you do it? Could you also make it sound appealing enough to convince a stranger to move 1,000 miles to take over your position?
Last month, CPRLI discussed the importance of choosing the right hearing panel members to ensure an unbiased hearing process. We covered three of eight best practices to help medical staffs answer questions they should ask themselves throughout the hearing process: “Are we doing...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 2
MSPs can help alert medical staff leaders to a potential security risk by telling them about a practitioner who acts abnormally during the credentialing process. Because MSPs process applications for so many practitioners, they know what behaviors constitute normal stress versus those...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 1
Satellite clinics are a growing trend, and medical staffs must properly credential and privilege the practitioners who work there. Learn how to easily apply core privileges to these practitioners.
Throughout every step of the hearing process, medical staffs should be asking themselves, “Are we doing everything possible to ensure a fair hearing? If the hospital becomes a defendant in litigation, does it have clear and defendable arguments to uphold the hearing process?”
Minute taking is an art. Too little information in meeting minutes may result in inadequate documentation, whereas too much information can become fodder for plaintiff’s attorneys if the minutes become subject to discovery during litigation.
