Today’s medical staffs are far more complex than their predecessors. The growing diversity in practitioners’ specialties, affiliations, and relationships adds ever-more steps, stakeholders, and complications to credentialing, privileging, and provider enrollment. What’s more, failure to align...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 1
Today’s MSPs are taking on larger volumes of work and scopes of responsibility than ever before, often without seeing equivalent gains in respect and standing. At the same time, many are still struggling with decades-old issues, such as integrating peer review into the credentialing and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 11
Credentialing and privileging have long been keystones of quality care and patient safety. But as healthcare reform drives consolidation, integration, and value-based reimbursement, these perennial functions are taking on new forms, environments, and significance. The following Q&A...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 10
In the days of paper, healthcare "information security" involved controlling who could access what documents. Most institutions, opting to err on the side of caution, marked all documents "confidential."
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 9
About a year ago, our chief nursing officer (CNO) asked me to her office for an impromptu meeting between her, the leader of our certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA) group, and me. The purpose of the meeting was to brainstorm ways to improve collaboration between our CRNAs and hospital...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 8
I was sitting in my office one day, thinking about how little of this fine country I've seen and wondering what it would be like to travel the interim staffing train. You know, see the United States, network with my fellow MSPs, be the rider on the white horse who saves the day. The picture in...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 6
"Do more with less" is the mantra that many MSPs hear ad nauseam throughout our careers. The medical staff office (MSO) often becomes the go-to place for tasks and processes that may be better suited for other teams. These miscellaneous assignments increase our stress level and add height to a...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 4
Do you remember the movie Groundhog Day? That's what it felt like to attend 15 medical staff department meetings a month, listening to the same quality and administrative reports over and over (and over) again. What's more, I was one of a dwindling few who toughed out these redundant events on a...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 3
