Credentialing can be an expensive business, from paying for primary source verifications to funding the salaries of MSPs who prepare files for medical executive committee review.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 9
Practitioners need clinical refreshers from time to time to keep their skills up to date. These refreshers can take the form of professional conferences or other opportunities for CME. Occasionally, a practitioner needs a more structured educational program, and that’s where physician reentry...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 8
Balance requires ongoing adjustments. Don’t believe me? Try standing on one foot. Chances are you’re constantly shifting your weight and maybe even spreading your arms wide to keep from toppling over.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 7
Few would disagree that confidentiality is an important aspect of the medical staff services department (MSSD) to maintain. Yet the deeper meaning of its importance becomes apparent when you begin to think about the consequences of a breach of confidentiality. The results can include costly...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 6
If the MSP is unable to obtain any required information, the hospital should inform the applicant that it is now his or her responsibility to obtain the required information and that the hospital will postpone or discontinue the reapplication process until it receives the required information.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 5
How many times have you written to an applicant’s residency program to obtain dates of attendance and competency evaluations? It’s a given that MSPs will verify these data during the credentialing process. But MSPs may not use the most efficient methods to gather information.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 4
Wouldn’t it be great if medical staffs could find out more about potential candidates without sharing the burden of reporting additional information? That’s essentially the scenario put forth by the new National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) updates.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 3
MSPs can help alert medical staff leaders to a potential security risk by telling them about a practitioner who acts abnormally during the credentialing process. Because MSPs process applications for so many practitioners, they know what behaviors constitute normal stress versus those...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 1
Satellite clinics are a growing trend, and medical staffs must properly credential and privilege the practitioners who work there. Learn how to easily apply core privileges to these practitioners.