To face the projected physician shortage, legislation introduced in the House and Senate aims to raise the number of Medicare-supported graduate medical education positions by 14,000.
Organizations should identify proactively how they will address low- or no-volume practitioners both at initial appointment and reappointment to ensure that as organizations they are extending privileges only to individuals who can demonstrate current clinical competence.
The provider enrollment process helps ensure that organizations are reimbursed for the care their practitioners provide patients. While it’s easy to focus on the main streams of revenue, provider enrollment professionals must be careful not to overlook the smaller streams that can easily escape...
This week, Hawaii became the 38th state to join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC). Supported by the Federation of State Medical Boards, the IMLC launched in 2017 as a way to make it easier for physicians to practice in multiple states.
In order to consider a change to core privileges, you should first examine the privilege delineation system currently in place at your organization. Most likely you will find many examples to bolster your case for a conversion to a criteria-based core privileging system. Areas that you want to...
A new law will make it harder for another Christopher Duntsch to practice medicine in Texas. HB 1998 was signed into law on June 13. The bill includes several new patient safety measures aimed at keeping bad physicians from flying under the radar and practicing in Texas.
In the interest of recruiting good physicians for the medical staff, the hospital, and the community, the physician recruitment division and the credentialing division need to be on the same page. Imagine this scenario: the recruiting division spends time and resources to recruit a specialist....
MSPs sometimes feel compelled to send an application to department chairs or to the credentials committee even though the application is incomplete. Frequently, the pressure comes from one of the following sources:
Physicians who want their new partner approved so he or she can take
For physicians, the risk of being sued by a patient is low in the short term but increases the longer they practice, according to data from the AMA’s Physician Practice Benchmark Surveys.
For the most part, the physician health committee is composed of senior medical staff members who are respected by their colleagues for their fairness and wisdom and who have a passion for patient safety and physician advocacy.