This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 25
During your next medical staff meeting, try this exercise: Have everyone in the room read the case study below and decide individually whether or not Community Hospital should hire Dr. Brown. Then, ask everyone to share why he or she chose that particular outcome. Set aside 15 minutes for a...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 25
Myth: A physician who has not provided inpatient care services recently is incompetent
Truth: A physician with little or no inpatient volume may have poorer outcomes than a physician with high volumes, but the lack of volume alone does not indicate that the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 25
Does your hospitalist program performance dashboard include hospitalist-specific data or does it only address the group’s performance as a whole? Take the poll at MedicalStaffLeader.com.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 24
The Joint Commission has added antidiscrimination language to MS.06.01.07 and MS.07.01.01 that prevents medical staffs from making medical staff appointment and credentialing decisions based on gender, race, creed, or national origin.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 24
No. When deciding whether a document should be classified as peer review, MSPs and medical staff leaders should check their state peer review statutes. “A lot of states have peer review statutes of their own in addition to the [Health Care Quality Improvement Act] statute,” says Annemarie Martin...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 24
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 24
Assuming that the medical staff services department does not identify any red flags during the credentials process, the CEO, VPMA, or service line manager should interview the prospective practitioner employee in person.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 23
To measure the burden of ED call on your medical staff, it is important to collect data on unassigned patients, but first you must define the term “unassigned ED patient.” It is a patient who, in the judgment of the attending emergency physician, requires on-site consultation, which may include...
