Heather Frazzetto, CPMSM, had a front-row seat to the radical changes in healthcare since the emergence of COVID-19 in early 2020. Along the way, the industry learned many lessons. For instance, remote work works.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 7
The U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Tennessee (the “Court”) recently dismissed a registered nurse’s claim against her employer that it violated her constitutional rights to procedural and substantive due process when it mandated that all healthcare employees be vaccinated against...
Depending on the scope of a centralized verification organization’s (CVO) responsibilities and its delegation agreements, various models and organizational structures can be employed to carry out its functions. The size of the organization and the geographic location of its contracted facilities...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 6
The United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (the "Court") denied a hospital's motion for summary judgment, finding that there were factual disputes that needed to be resolved by a jury regarding the plaintiff's claim of disability discrimination. A request for summary...
The Joint Commission (TJC) has published a list of the most frequently cited elements of performance (EP) from surveys conducted during 2021 to help healthcare organizations proactively address similar issues at their own facilities.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 6
Although credentialing, privileging, and provider enrollment are distinct and separate processes, there are many similarities and duplicate items to complete in each process. Often, organizations keep credentialing and enrollment siloed, wasting time, frustrating practitioners, and costing the...
The story regarding Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and late-stage physicians carries on in the legal arena. In February 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged YNHH, the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, with violating federal law by adopting and...
As of this month, all applicants seeking their initial physician licensure in Massachusetts or applying for license renewal through the state's Board of Registration in Medicine (BORIM) must complete training on implicit bias. Massachusetts joins several other states that already require similar...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 6
Erin Muellenberg is a former medical staff services director in a large community-based hospital and now serves as a healthcare attorney for Polsinelli Law Firm, practicing exclusively medical staff law. She was the chair of the NAMSS Education Committee for 2020 and 2021 and is intimately...
