Although in many hospitals, complaints or concerns regarding physicians go to the quality committee and then the peer review committee (if need be), in some hospitals, the CMO screens all peer review cases. If this is the case at your facility, the medical executive committee (MEC) should review...
As the March 31 deadline approaches for implementing the changes brought about by the final version of Joint Commission standard MS.01.01.01, one question hangs in the air: Are you ready?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 8
In reaction to concerns that accountable care organizations (ACOs) may put private practice physicians out of business, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in an interview with MedPage Today that ACOs don’t have to include hospitals. Rather than being dominated by...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 8
Gainsharing is an approach in which a specific group of physicians does something that creates financial savings for a hospital, and the hospital shares a portion of those savings with the physicians.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 8
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 12, Issue 8
A recent letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association delves into what, exactly, self-identified physicians are Tweeting about, and the results may make patients uncomfortable.
