The following questions and answers are from the recent HCPro webcast, "FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How to Address New Reporting Challenges," presented by Todd Sagin, MD, JD, national director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting, LLC, and HG Consultants, LLC.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
Most medical staff services professionals build their careers on helping their hospital medical staffs avoid situations that could lead to accusations of negligent credentialing. Yet the credentialing knowledge and expertise they amass can make them uniquely capable expert witnesses in negligent...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
Telepsychiatry shows promise as a way for hospitals to deliver scarce services to vulnerable patients, particularly in medically underserved areas. Often, telepsychiatry enables practitioners to evaluate and treat people who otherwise might not receive mental healthcare. For most organizations,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
The real challenge on the outpatient side comes when we try to apply the principles of inpatient privileging to the ambulatory world. Many organizations have only a vague idea of what clinical activity is going on in physician office practices
Granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without fully verifying their credentials verification can put healthcare organizations and their patients in danger--clinically and legally.
At the 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium held April 7-8 in Orlando,...
Part 8: Bylaws and employment agreements--perfect together?
Are employed physicians held to the standards of the medical staff bylaws? Where does an employment contract fit into this situation? William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE, tackles this challenging issue.