The ease of your credentialing process will either attract physicians or send them running, says William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE. The structure of separate departments for physician recruiting, human resources, physician practice management, medical staff services, and physician...
After a year of looking for a general/vascular surgeon, the physician recruiting department (reporting to human resources) has signed, sealed, and delivered a candidate: Dr. Star. They inform the medical staff services department (MSSD) (reporting to the chief medical officer [CMO]) that this...
Patricia Furci, RN, MA, Esq., and Samuel J. Furci, MPA take a look at issues that can cause practitioner impairment. This month, they focus on illness.
Physician impairment refers to situations in which practitioners are rendered unable to perform their professional responsibilities adequately because of a variety of health problems, including medical disease, psychiatric problems, or substance abuse (Physician Impairment by Substance Abuse,...
The federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) was passed by Congress to extend immunity to good faith peer review of physicians and dentists and to create the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). The statute is located at 42 United States Code section 11101 et seq.
For MSPs, understanding the regulatory road map is essential to ensure credentialing and privileging practices are compliant with applicable state law and other regulatory standards. In this article, we point out some of the major ideas that should be understood when credentialing and...
For the next several months, we will design an actual OPPE system looking at different metrics of physician performance. There is no regulatory or accreditation mandate as to what must be in an OPPE system; the only requirement from The Joint Commission and Healthcare Facilities Accreditation...
As more organizations begin to employ physicians, questions are emerging about all aspects of their practice. In a presentation titled "Navigating the Rough Waters of Credentialing, Hiring and Terminating Employed Physicians: The Medical Services Professional's Critical Role on the Crew," ...
This is the second of two columns investigating the issues surrounding credentialing and policies for autopsies. In Part 1, Patricia A. Furci, RN, MA, Esq., and Samuel J. Furci, MPA, provided some background and the reasons this procedure should not be considered...
