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...
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...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 4
Physicians often move from facility to facility, be it inside a single healthcare system or across different ones. So, how can hospitals in the same region share credentialing information if a physician applies at more than one hospital in the area?
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 3
In the Federal Register last summer, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made a significant move that impacts Joint Commission Surveys. On July 17, 2020, in Volume 85, Number 138 under the section Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Application From the Joint Commission for...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 12
The American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted new policies recently, including prevention of bullying among healthcare professionals and recognition of racism as a public health threat. According to The Joint Commission, intimidating and disruptive behavior in healthcare settings is...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 11
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division (the “Court”) granted in part and denied in part defendants’ motion to dismiss, finding that allegations of individual misconduct may not be sufficient in a pleading of racial discrimination...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 10
According to CMS, a hospital, “must have an effective governing body legally responsible for the conduct of the hospital as an institution. If a hospital does not have an organized governing body, the persons legally responsible for the conduct of the hospital must carry out the functions...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 9
As 2020 launched, healthcare executives had no way of knowing the havoc a novel virus that had emerged in Wuhan, China, would wreak on the healthcare industry. By March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization acknowledged a pandemic was in progress, and COVID-19 began impacting the U.S....
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 5
One of the most challenging problems faced by physician leaders is addressing the unprofessional behavior of a colleague. Why is it that the most skilled, the highest producer, the best and brightest, the only physician in that specialty, has behavioral issues? The answer is simple—because it is...
