Starting in October, 2,592 hospitals will receive lower payments for Medicare patients due to penalties for high rates of readmissions, according to Kaiser Health News. The hospitals will lose a combined $420 million through the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, which was created by the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 31
Fifty-five percent of physician leaders believe the Affordable Care Act has more good in it than bad, according to a survey conducted by the American Association for Physician Leadership and the Navigant Center for Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 31
“Charting is bad enough, but I see nothing beneficial from having me sit at the desk and try to make decisions about life, death and disability, all the while trying to figure out how to enter a timed troponin level, even as the next stroke victim rolls through the door.”
- Edwin...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 31
Thank you to everyone who responded to my note in last week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider about the return of house calls. The comments were unanimously in favor of them. Many with experience making house calls commented on how gratifying it was and how...
Today's Quick Tip concerns form letter verifications. This type of verification is still widely used, but many MSPs consider form letters to be a low-yield credentialing tool. However, your form letter procedures can be "optimized" to get the best possible return on your time and...
With dozens (or more!) of applications and reapplications coming through your office, keeping track of what verifications are still needed for which practitioners can be a daunting task. Start with a schedule that shows the steps in the credentialing process, and acceptable time frames for each...
Do you know the difference between verification of previous hospital affiliations and confirmation of practitioner competence? Are you trying to replace outdated reappointment practices with efficient processes? Mark your calendar now for Breaking Through Credentialing Misconceptions:...
The Medicare provider database reportedly lists thousands of doctors and other providers as graduates from medical schools that have been defunct for a century, according to a MedPage Today story posted last week. Many of these errors were apparently caused by the practitioner...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 30
Even as regulators and the public demand more verification of physician competence, physicians have less time—and are less willing—to perform competence assessments and undergo monitoring. With this in mind, medical staffs must develop proctoring and precepting plans that are effective and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 30
The use of 360-degree evaluations can provide a practical, systematic, and subjectively-accurate assessment of surgeon performance without undue reviewer burden, says an article in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
