More than 4 million surgeries have been called off in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is according to a study conducted by CovidSurg Collaborative published in the British Journal of Surgery. They looked at surgeries canceled during the peak 12 weeks of the pandemic and...
As part of our new initiative to highlight the efforts of MSPs everywhere, the Credentialing Resource Center Team is recognizing stellar MSPs in the community by featuring them in Credentialing Resource Center Digest. In our second feature, we would like to recognize Tawna Miles...
A recent poll on our Medical Staff & Credentialing Professionals LinkedIn page shows that MSPs have been affected financially at work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to respondents, their medical staff offices have experienced:
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned everyday life upside down in so many ways. From school and childcare to socializing and work life, dramatic change has been forced on many individuals and businesses over the last several months. One of the biggest examples of this is the shift to remote work for...
In a monumental decision last week, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act. This finding ultimately upheld DACA, protecting from deportation...
A common mistake many medical staff services departments (MSSD) make is to combine a physician’s clinical evaluation request and the hospital affiliation verification request. Combining these requests can cause delays in getting the information MSPs need to complete the reappointment process.
The U.S. health care system is famously resistant to government-imposed change. It took decades to create Medicare and Medicaid, mostly due to opposition from the medical-industrial complex. Then it was nearly another half-century before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. But the COVID-19...
Dealing with a disruptive physician is difficult enough when you have time to plan for an intervention and have others to help you. But, what can you do when you are confronted by a disruptive physician during a committee meeting?
The traditional arrangement when a physician applies for clinical privileges at a health system is that the medical staff services department collects information from multiple sources to verify the physician’s current competence specifically related to the privileges requested. Then the medical...
Established providers in psychiatry saw their total compensation increase 7.69%—the most among all specialties—from 2018 to 2019, according to the Medical Group Management Association’s latest Provider Compensation and Production Report.
After psychiatry, the specialties with the largest...
