Estimating future needs of the community can be tricky, but it’s not impossible. One of the factors you need to take into consideration is your population of aging physicians.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 15
Fram, an after-market automotive parts manufacturer, once made a car care commercial that made this line famous: “You can pay me now, or you can pay me later!” The mechanic in the commercial explains to a customer that he can pay a small sum now to proactively maintain his car, or he can wait...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 14
Many medical staff services departments are challenged to redesign clinical privileges in all specialties to ensure that they are criteria-based and compliant with regulatory standards for FPPE and OPPE—and they have to do it in a timely manner with limited resources. Put The Greeley Company’s...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 14
If you’re an e-mail junkie like me, you may have, at one point, thought, “Boy, wouldn’t it be convenient if I could e-mail my doctor?” You know how it goes—you seek out a private place at work where you can call the doctor’s office to report a persistent cough or mysterious rash, and inevitably...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 14
Clinical observers are a category of practitioners that organizations tend to overlook. It is common, especially in academic medical centers, for practitioners to observe or shadow a member of the medical staff. Organizations should have policies in place to govern that process.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 14
A hospital should never make an improper report to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). A report made incorrectly can have a negative effect on a physician’s career and can lead to litigation. Therefore, medical staff bylaws should clearly define certain criteria.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 14
The words you choose can make the difference between well-written bylaws that protect the medical staff and bylaws that set the medical staff up for disaster, says Mary Hoppa, MD, MBA, CMSL, senior consultant with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. in Marblehead, MA...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 13
