Representatives from The Joint Commission, URAC, DNV GL, the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP), and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) took the stage at the 2017 NAMSS Educational Conference & Exhibition in October to share what they have learned from the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 11
Hey MSPs, we need to let go of Michael Swango; we have a new poster child for dangerous doctors! His name is Christopher Duntsch, MD. Duntsch was a neurosurgeon who allegedly botched surgeries in the Dallas area in 2012 and 2013, killing or maiming up to 35 patients. How did this happen? How did...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 8
For healthcare organizations, making sense of all the credentialing standards of major accrediting bodies—including CMS, DNV GL, the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP), The Joint Commission, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance—is easier said than done. Careful...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 6
In states where advanced practice professionals (APP) must practice under a physician’s tutelage, a collaborative or supervisory agreement may be required to delineate the nature of this relationship.
The specific contents and implicated parties of such agreements vary by state,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 7
Finding that documents gathered, used, and generated during a hospital’s root cause analysis (RCA) process were privileged from disclosure, the Appellate Court of Illinois for the First District (the “Court”) reversed a Circuit Court of Cook County’s decision ordering the hospital to produce the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 6
The Court of Appeal for the Second District of California (the “Court”) affirmed a Superior Court of Los Angeles County decision to dismiss a physician’s suit against a hospital for summarily suspending his medical staff privileges pending a peer review.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 4
The Kentucky Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a circuit court’s judgment that peer review documents, produced by Saints Mary & Elizabeth Hospital (SMEH) in Louisville, were not admissible at trial in a negligence case brought by the estate of a former patient.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 3
How do you make OPPE and FPPE more than just an item on the regulatory compliance checklist? Although it has been 10 years since The Joint Commission released its ongoing and focused professional practice evaluation standards, organizations are still struggling to develop meaningful processes...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 1
