It’s important to remind those outside the profession of all the important work MSPs do every day. For example, while credentialing and privileging might be considered job one for MSPs, the medical staff services department is more involved in quality and peer review processes than ever before...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 7
It seems like a paradox: As credentialing becomes more complex, MSPs are asked to credential practitioners even faster. Yet this is the case in most hospitals and health systems across the country. So how can MSPs reduce the number of days to process a credentialing file (also known as...
CMS is again reminding hospitals of their obligations under federal law to help pregnant women in medical emergencies, but with the added emphasis that care must be offered “irrespective of any state laws or mandates that apply to specific procedures.” The reminder comes more than two weeks...
With suicide rates among physicians far outpacing those in other professions, researchers at UC San Diego Health attempted to better understand the job stressors that contribute to the problem. To do this, they reviewed the death investigation narratives from 200 physician suicides collected by...
The oversight function of the peer review process involves all the actions necessary to oversee the process to ensure that it is done correctly. The oversight function is not always familiar to physicians because in many hospitals, the peer review process is not organized to perform it.
Heather Frazzetto, CPMSM, had a front-row seat to the radical changes in healthcare since the emergence of COVID-19 in early 2020. Along the way, the industry learned many lessons. For instance, remote work works.
