A conversion to core privileging is underway at MaineHealth, and the effort has spurred a drive to standardize privilege forms among the eight hospitals in the system. Now, a little more than a year into the process, the integrated healthcare delivery network has drafts of forms for three...
CMS' revisions present credentialing issues and decisions for hospitals reagrding the process by which therapeutic diets may be ordered. In this article we identify some of the issues that must be considered before hospitals can implement changes to their credentialing process in order to...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 11
Are two peer references adequate for low- or no-volume practitioners at reappointment? What constitutes "current" competence? These are some of the many audience questions that Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, answered during the recent webcast "Verify and Comply: Meet Your Top...
The California Court of Appeals for the Second District, Division 3 (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, upheld the Superior Court of Los Angeles County's decision to strike a physician's lawsuit against a hospital and its medical staff claiming he was denied the right...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 11
Editor's note: HCPro's Credentialing Resource Center is constantly adding to and updating its library of Clinical Privilege White Papers, which outline sample privileging criteria and background research for a wide range of medical specialty and subspecialty areas, procedures...
