The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) recently made changes to its Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) program, including a new entry/re-entry process.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 5
At some point during their tenure, physician leaders will be faced with the tough decision of whether to let an impaired or disruptive physician back on the medical staff. What can they do? Where should they start? R. Dean White, DDS, MS, featured Credentialing Resource Center Symposium speaker...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 5
Medical staffs should include a provision in the bylaws stating that if there is a contractual arrangement between the hospital and any member of the medical staff, the terms of the contract take precedence over the bylaws, says Michael Callahan, an attorney at Katten Muchen Rosenman, LLP, in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 5
Create strategic solutions to privileging low- and no-volume practitioners with advice from two leading medical staff and credentialing experts. In this online program, Yisrael M. Safeek, MD, MBA, CPE, FACPE, an experienced physician leader and former Joint Commission surveyor, and Sally...
The medical executive committee (MEC) at Better Times Hospital has proportional representation. Many years ago (no one is sure exactly when), the MEC agreed that each of the 15 clinical departments should have at least one seat on the MEC regardless of its size. For every...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 21, Issue 2
Access to the Internet has made it easier to track down credentialing information. The real job for credentialing specialists has become verifying the validity of such information. Training MSPs to spot the difference between credible and useless information is key to making the...
