The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook was released in April and included significant changes that may have repercussions for medical staff bylaws. MSPs need to examine the revised edition closely to understand what the changes mean for their organizations.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 30
Last week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider featured a brief about ProPublica’s Surgeon Scorecard, an online tool to compare surgeons based on their death and complication rates. As expected, reactions were varied among physicians. A collection of them can...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 28
This week’s Medical Staff Leader Insider features an article about a new online tool that will allow patients to compare surgeons based on death and complication rates. While patients may appreciate the opportunity to learn more about their surgeons before an...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 27
A few of the articles in this week’s Medical Staff Leader Insider address issues that may or may not increase patient risk. One addresses whether low-volume providers and hospitals put patients at greater risk when performing procedures they rarely perform. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 26
Thank you to everyone who has taken our survey on e-learning courses for medical services professionals. If you haven’t, please take a minute to let us know what topics we can address in the course. The survey is only three questions and can be found at the link below....
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 7
The picture for healthcare employment is complicated, and no one would argue that things are getting simpler or more lucrative for many hospitals. However, the 2015 MSP Salary Survey picture is not a gloomy one.
We continue our coverage this month of HCPro's MSP Salary Survey. HCPro conducts this survey annually, and this year we are sharing the results with the readers ofCredentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider.
As mentioned in the previous issue of the newsletter...
HCPro would like to offer a medical staff professional (MSP) e-learning library. These e-learning courses for credentialing and privileging would allow MSPs to complete training modules to improve their skills or learn new ones. Course topics could include credentialing...
