Enrollment. Managed care. Recruitment. Contracting. These are common terms heard in the provider enrollment world. Yet there is often confusion about what each term means and how these functions work together in enabling practitioners to deliver patient care. LaShawna Brown, CPMSM, CPCS,...
COVID-19 has upended the world in terms of public health and had a profound effect on healthcare operations, healthcare staff, and the well-being of caretakers and their families. That goes equally for medical staff professionals like Mary D. Dijkstra, FMSD, CPCS, CPMSM, who serves as the...
The new president of the American Academy of PAs is bullish on the future of the physician assistant profession.Jennifer Orozco, MMS, PA-C, began her AAPA presidency on July 1. She practices in vascular surgery and serves as director of advanced practice providers at Rush...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 9
There are many positives to the judicious use of social media in medicine, and the future will open many more possibilities. The risks, however, will not diminish in time; rather, the potholes will become bigger. Everyone, medical professional or not, would benefit from pausing before posting on...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 9
Gains in compensation are never a bad thing. And performance-based metrics, while challenging, can be rewarding—a pat on the back for a job well done. But here’s the not-so-great news when it comes to MSP raises: According to the respondents of Credentialing Resource Center’s 2020 MSP Salary...
Our understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has come a long way since General George Patton was reprimanded for assaulting “shellshocked” soldiers on two separate occasions in 1943. Neither of the hospitalized patients had physical wounds, which enraged Patton to the point he...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 9
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (the "Court") ruled that a physician’s claims against the health system and hospital that employed him did not stand up because they stemmed from protected peer review activities.
The foundation for much of peer review is case review. And although medical staffs have been conducting case reviews for years, that doesn't necessarily mean it's done consistently or well.
There can be much variation in the effectiveness of case review among different medical staffs and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 9
This past year has brought numerous changes—both good and bad. For many, a change to working from home was stressful in the beginning, but also brought a chance to shake up how things are done. “There was a focus on work successfully achieved to expectation rather than hours served,” say Jenny...
