The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) recently made changes to its Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) program, including a new entry/re-entry process.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 5
At some point during their tenure, physician leaders will be faced with the tough decision of whether to let an impaired or disruptive physician back on the medical staff. What can they do? Where should they start? R. Dean White, DDS, MS, featured Credentialing Resource Center Symposium speaker...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 5
Medical staffs should include a provision in the bylaws stating that if there is a contractual arrangement between the hospital and any member of the medical staff, the terms of the contract take precedence over the bylaws, says Michael Callahan, an attorney at Katten Muchen Rosenman, LLP, in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 5
Create strategic solutions to privileging low- and no-volume practitioners with advice from two leading medical staff and credentialing experts. In this online program, Yisrael M. Safeek, MD, MBA, CPE, FACPE, an experienced physician leader and former Joint Commission surveyor, and Sally...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 4
Legislation pending in New York and Tennessee seeks to require physicians to refer to a drug monitoring database prior to issuing any controlled substance prescriptions.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 4
William F. Mills, M.D., MMM, CPE, FAAFP, CMSL, senior vice president of quality and professional affairs for the Upper Allegheny Health System, will be speaking about using patient satisfaction scores to drive improvement at the 2012 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium. In anticipation of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 4
Improved understanding and more involvement in care; these are two reasons patients would like “open visit notes” with their primary care physicians (PCPs).
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