“The physicians who are most respected in a community are often not the ones who do the fastest surgery, make the smartest diagnoses or charge the least. The dominant doctors are those that connect to each patient’s emotional flow and needs.”
- James C. Salwitz, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 40
Do you have any best practices or forms/lists/ templates from your organization you’d like to share? HCPro is working on a new book, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Employed Physicians, which will be about how medical staffs apply their regular processes to employed physicians...
The skills that MSPs use every day—in-depth knowledge of regulations, attention to detail, and the ability to follow sketchy paper trails—can help an MSP become an expert witness in credentialing and privileging cases, according Kathy Matzka, CPMSM, CPCS, a healthcare consultant based in Lebanon...
Virtual meetings are a benefit to healthcare organizations with multiple locations. However, this solution also comes with challenges, according to Amy Niehaus, CPMSM, CPCS, consultant for The Greeley Company. For example, it is difficult to read someone’s body language or to...
There is very little direct measurement of the direct effect of peer review on the quality of care delivered, according to Mark Smith, MD, of HG Healthcare Consultants LLC. Smith spoke to the effectiveness of the current peer review system most hospitals have in place during the...
