“The physicians who are most respected in a community are often not the ones who do the fastest surgery, make the smartest diagnoses or charge the least. The dominant doctors are those that connect to each patient’s emotional flow and needs.”
- James C. Salwitz, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 40
Do you have any best practices or forms/lists/ templates from your organization you’d like to share? HCPro is working on a new book, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Employed Physicians, which will be about how medical staffs apply their regular processes to employed physicians...
The skills that MSPs use every day—in-depth knowledge of regulations, attention to detail, and the ability to follow sketchy paper trails—can help an MSP become an expert witness in credentialing and privileging cases, according Kathy Matzka, CPMSM, CPCS, a healthcare consultant based in Lebanon...
Virtual meetings are a benefit to healthcare organizations with multiple locations. However, this solution also comes with challenges, according to Amy Niehaus, CPMSM, CPCS, consultant for The Greeley Company. For example, it is difficult to read someone’s body language or to...
There is very little direct measurement of the direct effect of peer review on the quality of care delivered, according to Mark Smith, MD, of HG Healthcare Consultants LLC. Smith spoke to the effectiveness of the current peer review system most hospitals have in place during the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) quietly updated its guidelines last spring. In the 90-minute webcast, FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook, expert Todd Sagin, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
HCPro is working on a book about how the medical staff applies its regular processes to employed physicians. The Medical Staff’s Guide to Employed Physicians will cover best practices for onboarding, credentialing, peer review, corrective action, and other issues that may have to be...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 39, Issue 16
As more physicians admit to being stressed or burned out, it is becoming increasingly important for healthcare organizations to focus on how to help physicians deal with these issues. The following is a list of items that both individual physicians and organizations can implement to reduce burn...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
Adventist Health System will pay $118 million to settle claims that it overpaid physicians in order to get more referrals. The plaintiffs alleged that Adventist convinced physician practices to join the system by providing inflated base salaries and extravagant bonuses. One physician allegedly...
