In many ways, the reappointment process mimics the initial appointment process, particularly when it comes to credentialing. The difference, of course, is that you are credentialing current members of your medical staff, not new applicants. As a result, there are some facets of the initial...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 11
Over the past seven years, there have been several nationwide efforts to address physician burnout, which has been linked to physician involvement in patient safety incidents, unprofessionalism, and lower patient satisfaction. The efforts to curb physician burnout have included AMA conferences...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 11
All practitioners—employed or not—are to be held to the same minimally defined medical staff standards for clinical care, professionalism, documentation, on-call responsibilities, and so forth. One of your responsibilities as a medical staff leader is to ensure that the expectations are adequate...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 10
Peer recommendations are powerful tools for MSPs. They often complete the picture you are trying to put together of the advanced practice professional (APP) during the initial credentialing or reappointment process.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 9
Lengthy enrollment turnaround times with commercial payers can hurt an organization’s bottom line with delayed or lost revenue. Provider enrollment specialists have traditionally performed this function, but a growing contingent of MSPs are managing enrollment duties in addition to their...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 8
A growing body of research shows a diverse medical workforce benefits patient care and the learning environment for physician trainees, says Lahia Yemane, MD, associate program director for the pediatrics program at Stanford Medicine in Palo Alto, California. Medical staff leadership must keep...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 3
Telemedicine providers communicate with patients or other caregivers via electronic communications. They will remotely review medical records, render a diagnosis, provide radiologic interpretation, or prescribe treatment, all without ever stepping foot inside the hospital. Because a telemedicine...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 2
Accreditation certifies that an organization has met specific quantified standards. Similarly, accrediting bodies are certified in terms of their ability to measure these standards. Usually, the top rung on the accreditation ladder is a sole agency, which may have the government as the primary...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 1
A study that found independent hospital accreditation carries no real benefit for patient outcomes has garnered a formal rebuttal from The Joint Commission, which argues the researchers reached faulty conclusions due to a number of methodological flaws.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 1
The California Fourth District Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a Superior Court of Orange County decision finding that the defendants failed to provide any evidence that a department chair’s statements were made in connection to the hospital’s peer review process.
