Check with your accrediting organization and local or state boards of pharmacy to ensure that your hospitals understand the expectations for how often staff must demonstrate core competencies in sterile drug compounding. The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has revised its standard under USP <797...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 1
Happy one-year anniversary of The Joint Commission’s move to update its time frame for evaluating licensed practitioners’ ability to provide care, treatment, and services from two years to three years. Although healthcare facilities do not have to make the change, many are. And it’s been a year...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 12
Medicare has merged the CMS-855R into the CMS-855I paper enrollment application. Find out what this means for your organization and your practitioners.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 11
A robust peer review process often hinges on collaboration among a variety of disciplines. Specific participants are selected according to medical staff policies and procedures. In addition to the practitioner and the designated reviewer, additional support staff, including medical staff...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 11
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (the “Court”) dismissed a physician’s claims of breach of contract and defamation based on the reference letter he received from the residency program.
The plaintiff in the case, Jeffrey Weisman, MD, filed his claim against...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 11
The configuration of the medical staff—ranging from fully employed to a mixed model of employed and independent practitioners—holds substantial implications for the operational dynamics within a healthcare system. This intricacy extends to the realms of medical staff services, which through...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 10
To assist organizations in improving their credentialing and privileging processes, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has released an updated version of its Credentialing and Privileging Toolkit.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 10
Dawn Anderson, CPCS, CPMSM, director of credentialing, privileging, and licensing for Ob Hospitalist Group in Greenville, South Carolina, is a big advocate for preventing burnout among credentialing specialists. CRCJ spoke with Anderson earlier this year to discuss the organization’s burnout...
