Onboarding can be an arduous process for physician leadership and medical staff service departments (MSSD), even when things go smoothly. More and more, organizations are hearing about the provider experience of onboarding--including their frustration when application...
Clinical contracts present numerous challenges for a hospital and its medical staff, which begin even before the contract is executed. The relative complexities of this process will vary, given the specific service to be performed...
As more organizations begin to employ physicians, questions are emerging about all aspects of their practice. In a presentation titled "Navigating the Rough Waters of Credentialing, Hiring and Terminating Employed Physicians: The Medical Services Professional's Critical Role on the Crew," ...
A large part of establishing privileging guidelines is boiling all the information down to what's most relevant to the unique specifications of the MSP's own facility and then making the best recommendations possible to the departments or service lines, the credentials committee...
A contemporary definition of peer review is far more "expansive" than the traditional notion of individual case/chart review. It includes the ongoing evaluation of an individual's performance for all relevant performance dimensions using all appropriate, relevant, and available sources of...
