Medical malpractice lawsuits resulting from negligent credentialing can be costly for hospitals. Legal defense fees, settlement payments, and jury verdicts can end up costing hospitals millions. However, these types of lawsuits can be avoided if those responsible for credentialing healthcare...
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (the Court) held that the Louisiana peer review privilege protected a non-party hospital from a subpoena served on it by an insurance company seeking peer review information about one of its physicians.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 5
New medical staff leaders often have questions about credentialing and privileging. Recently, Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, and Mary Hoppa, MD, MBA, answered some of those questions during the webcast "Credentialing and Privileging: Tools to Tackle the Top Physician Leader Responsibilities."
It's hard to ignore the role medical staff culture plays in most medical staff- related decisions at an organization. Politics, whether good or bad, tend to dominate the how and why votes are taken to make changes to the medical staff, and the dissolution or formation of clinical departments is...
The intent of this series was to demystify the OPPE process and offer best practices that could be implemented in your organization. The fundamental underlying principle of OPPE is the ongoing determination of physician competency, a requirement by CMS in the Conditions of Participation...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 5
Physician engagement, one of the greatest keys to the success of healthcare organizations today, cannot be ignored. In fact, I would venture to say that an organization's relationship with physicians has never been more important.
