Continuity of good medical staff leadership should be a goal of every organization. The absence of such leadership when critical issues arise can have both short- and long-term consequences. Without capable leaders, the immediate challenge of the day may be...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 33
Physician performance feedback reports are only effective when the medical staff adopts a culture that accepts the validity of such reports and acts on them. Medical staff leadership must support the implementation of effective data collection systems and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 33
A Texas appeals court recently found that a plastic surgery patient, who brought a negligent credentialing suit against a hospital following injury, failed to satisfy a state law that required her to submit expert reports to support her healthcare liability claim.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 31
"Continue to monitor," states the minutes of the surgical department meeting. "Tell the nursing supervisor to keep her eyes open," says the department chair. When a particular physician's name comes up yet again at the medical executive committee meeting, all eyes immediately began scanning the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 30
The number of Americans having weight-loss surgery more than quadrupled between 1998 and 2002 from 13,386 to 71,733, according to a study published in the July 12 issue of Health Affairs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 26
On June 21, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will begin to implement the revised classification criteria used to determine inpatient hospital rehabilitation payment it adopted in a May 7, 2004 ruling. In January 2005, the rule was suspended by CMS after...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 24
According to a June 2005 inspection report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), 20% of the consecutive inpatient stay sequences it studied were associated with poor-quality care and/or unnecessary fragmentation of care.
