Although MSPs consider quality care a driving focus, they don’t always devote the same energy to collaborating with colleagues in the quality department. This incongruity can be counterproductive. Poor alignment between quality and medical staff services personnel can undermine overlapping...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 12
The South Dakota Supreme Court (the “Court”) recently reversed a circuit court’s decision ordering several healthcare providers to produce peer review materials. The Court disagreed with the lower court’s interpretation of the state’s peer review privilege and found that a court-created crime-...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 12
Although CMS has now substantially limited the ability of a hospital to establish provider-based (PB) locations, they have been extremely popular over the past few years because they allow a hospital to bill for services as if they were provided at the main hospital building (i.e., each service...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 12
Are you considering a change in your credentialing software or a move to an automated system? Modern medical staff services departments are increasingly turning to technologies that allow MSPs...