Two years ago, the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) launched its online repository to provide medical staff offices a place to quickly find and upload primary source practitioner affiliation history. Since then, the NAMSS Practitioner Affiliation Sharing Source (NAMSS PASS)...
Editor's note: During the webcast "Credentialing and Privileging: Tools to Tackle the Top Physician Leader Responsibilities," Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, and Mary Hoppa, MD, MBA, answered audience questions on the role of leadership in credentialing and privileging. The following are some...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (the "Court") ordered a hospital to comply with a subpoena served by the U.S. government to produce documents relevant to an ongoing federal investigation.
In its decision, the Court followed the predominant view of federal...
As the country's population continues to grow older, hospitals and medical staffs may struggle with how to monitor the skills and abilities of their physicians who are also advancing in age. According to a study released earlier this year by the Association of American Medical Colleges on the...
Have you ever made flash cards to study for an exam? Do you remember silly facts you learned in a trivia game? Often, approaching a new subject in different formats can help us absorb and retain information better than simply reading the material over and over again. The following games and...
The trend in recent years has seen hospitals and healthcare systems acquiring practices and employing more physicians. According to a 2014 survey conducted by healthcare staffing company Jackson Healthcare, 20% of primary care physicians were employed by a hospital. This percentage was twice as...
While the basic concept of peer review has remained the same over the years?the evaluation of a physician's competencies and ability to deliver safe and effective care?the ways it is performed and evaluated, and who falls into the peer review bucket, has changed
Healthcare organizations facing staffing shortages may resort to granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians. However, without full credentials verification of those physicians, credentialing and privileging professionals may clinically...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (the "Court") granted a health system's motion for summary judgment, dismissing a former employee-physician's claims that she was placed on leave and terminated in violation of the Americans with...
