Physician executives have long had a role in hospital management. During the 1980s and 1990s, with the advent of a payment system based on diagnostic related groups (DRG) and managed care challenges, physician executives took on important roles. They sometimes played the role of medical director...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 35
Whether you took a “staycation” to tend to your garden and lose yourself in a good book or two or splurged on airfare and hotel fees to luxuriate in air conditioned splendor, we all need some time away from phones, computers, and other devices that beep and glow and demand our attention.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 35
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 34
In addition to the Stark and anti-kickback rules that already govern physicians’ relationships with providers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS), CMS has recently issued further...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 34
Most medical staffs have traditionally allowed any member to suggest or submit a proposed bylaws amendment. If a bylaws committee exists and meets regularly (as opposed to an ad hoc committee that meets every two years to thoroughly review and update the bylaws), that committee typically...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 34
A quick poll on HCPro.com reveals that of 28 respondents, 56% report having three or more employees in the medical staff services department (MSSD). These are encouraging numbers considering that the economic crisis has caused many hospitals to trim their budgets, which often means reducing the...
