As hospitals diversify their medical staffs and contend with mounting regulatory efforts to ally payment and performance, interdisciplinary collaboration has emerged as a major driver of financial health, medical staff stability, and care quality. By extension, collaboration is also the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 8
CMS has cited University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore for violating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) stemming from an incident in which a female patient wearing only a gown and socks was escorted from the hospital by security staff and left at a bus stop...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 3
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), a multistate clinic and provider network specializing in chronic kidney failure treatment, agreed to a $3.5 million Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violation settlement, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced February...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 11
Healthcare institutions seeking accreditation have more options than ever. The Joint Commission, DNV GL, and HFAP are all well established, but don’t count out the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ). Granted in August 2013, CIHQ’s hospital accreditation authority has remained...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 10
Ten years ago, The Joint Commission introduced its OPPE and OPPE standards. Since then, organizations have worked to develop meaningful and practical processes for professional practice evaluations.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 9
As MSPs, we all know how challenging it can be to establish and maintain a healthy esprit de corps between physicians and hospital staff. Some of this difficulty emanates from the structure of independent medical practice in which the physician is accountable to the hospital but, at the same...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 8
How many of us have received and/or sent an email that started out like this? We all have, at one time or another, and the person asking is hanging out there, swinging...
