With a few word changes, the six core competencies for clinicians can become six core competencies for MSPs. You can customize these core competencies to gauge your own job performance and to help others understand the importance of what you do and what you can offer to your organization.
Dr. Young's husband is Dr. Primus, an employed primary care physician whose practice is 100% in an ambulatory setting affiliated with Coordinated Hospital. He has not set foot into Coordinated Hospital since the initial credentials meeting almost two years ago. Now, he is up for reappointment....
If they’re a member of your medical staff, and you allow people without a license to be on your medical staff, then you need query the NPDB. It’s not a function of whether they’re licensed or not, it’s a function of whether they have been made a member of your medical staff or your healthcare...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 46
After months that saw small increases and even decreases, the Consumer Price Index for hospital services rose 2% in October, which was the highest month-over-month increase of the year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inpatient hospital prices grew 2.3%, compared to outpatient...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 44
Organizations are drowning in unproductive meetings, according to author Al Pittampalli in an article for Harvard Business Review. Often it is difficult to distinguish the worthwhile ones from the worthless due to vague language that hides a meeting’s true purpose. Often what we...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 11
At our facility, the provider onboarding process has become every employee's responsibility and privilege. If you read my column in the May issue of CRCJ, you know that we have been working on this process. We assessed the changes we had made with a new physician survey and feedback...
After questions were raised about Dr. Young's clinical competence, the medical staff services department (MSSD) was requested to gather any additional information about professional concerns. It was also time to gather data for her biennial reappointment. A request about any behavioral,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 43
With the estimate that nearly one in three individuals in the U.S. will be Latino by 2050, advances must be made to increase the Latino physician workforce, says the authors of a commentary published in Academic Medicine. The growth in proportion of Latino medical school applicants between 2002...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 42
Healthcare spending in the United States exceeded that of 13 other high-income countries, according to a study from The Commonwealth Group. In 2013, the United States spent 17% of its gross domestic product on healthcare; the next highest percentage was France and Sweden, at about 12% each....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 41
In response to projected physician shortages in the near future, lawmakers in Ohio are considering a bill that would allow advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) to work independently from physicians. Supporters of the bill argue that APRNs are qualified to work independently because they...
