In 1992, President George Bush signed a Congressional House Joint Resolution proclaiming the first week in November as National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week. In the 23 years since then, medical staff services have become ever more integral to healthcare organizations of all sizes....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 43
With the estimate that nearly one in three individuals in the U.S. will be Latino by 2050, advances must be made to increase the Latino physician workforce, says the authors of a commentary published in Academic Medicine. The growth in proportion of Latino medical school applicants between 2002...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 43
Sooner or later, as a medical staff leader, you will be called upon to run a meeting. It may be in the service of directly carrying out a key responsibility delegated to the medical staff by the governing board. Or it may be that the meeting is required to meet some standard of a regulatory or...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 43
A nationwide survey of more than 300 emergency medicine physicians found that they are more miserable than physicians in general. According to the survey, which was conducted by Geneia, emergency medicine physicians scored a 3.9 out of 5 on the Physician Misery Index. In a survey conducted...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 43
“Docs are a competitive and chauvinistic breed. We love to needle and we have a culture of complaining that predates EHR and ICD-10, don’t you know. And whatever our specialty, we somehow feel the truth of these characterizations apply a little bit to all of us.”
- Jeff Brown, MD...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 43
Thank you to everyone who responded to our call for medical staff experts last week. There’s still time to let us know you’re interested. As you may recall, we’re looking for experts who want to contribute to our growing collection of books, webcasts, seminars, and...
Most hospitals and their medical staffs do little or nothing to prepare a staff member to proctor. This is a serious deficiency that can have numerous adverse consequences. For example, an aggressive proctor might make judgmental statements that unnecessarily push the...
Today’s free resource is a checklist you can use to audit credentials files when preparing them for initial appointment or reappointment. This checklist was developed by the medical staff services department at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Lisa Kuklinski, BBA, CPMSM, CPCS,...
According to authors Richard Sheff, MD, and Robert Marder, MD, there are 12 principles of credentialing that every credentials committee members should know. These 12 principles are outlined in the Credentials...
CMS requires that medical staffs have a policy for fair hearing and appeal. An applicant or an individual holding a medical staff appointment is entitled to request a hearing when the MEC or the board has made an unfavorable recommendation regarding staff membership or privileges.
