Clinician shortages are gaining ground across the country, adding new urgency to a long-standing pursuit in the medical staff services department (MSSD): striking the ideal balance between quality and efficiency.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 3
These questions and answers are from the recent HCPro webcast, "FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How to Address New Reporting Challenges," presented by Todd Sagin, MD, JD, national director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting, LLC, and HG Consultants, LLC.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
The following questions and answers are from the recent HCPro webcast, "FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How to Address New Reporting Challenges," presented by Todd Sagin, MD, JD, national director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting, LLC, and HG Consultants, LLC.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 12
Effective FPPE programs start with basic understanding of the difference between proctors and preceptors, as outlined in Proctoring, FPPE, and Practitioner Competency Assessment: A Clinical Leader's Guide, by Todd Sagin, MD, JD.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 11
The rise of locum tenens practitioners presents a variety of challenges: How many of a locum tenens' myriad past assignments should be verified? How can the process be streamlined, or at least be made less stressful? When everyone wants a practitioner to be brought on board as fast as possible,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 10
By Rick Sheff, MD, principal and chief medical officer, The Greeley Company
Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, chief credentialing officer, The Greeley Company
Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, advisory consultant, The Greeley Company
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 9
Maintenance of certification (MOC) has become the focus of many physicians, as some question its relevance, others offer opinions on ways to make it better, and others look for alternative certification options. One created an alternative board for physician certification, The National Board of...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 8
Littleton (New Hampshire) Regional Healthcare relies on locum tenens physicians to augment its permanent medical staff. The facility doesn't have much choice, says Julie Hatley, CPMSM, CPCS, manager of medical staff services at the 25-bed critical access hospital. "We're a small...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 7
The 2015 MSP Salary Survey shows that CPMSM and CPCS certifications edged up slightly from last year, and it looks like more organizations now require their MSPs to have (or get) certification. However, as you've probably also read, many respondents have no certification of any kind, even in...
