Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 47

Study busts myth of higher burnout rate for hospital physicians

December 5, 2013

Physicians who work in outpatient settings are at just as much risk for burnout as their inpatient counterparts, a study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine has found. Researchers at the Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic reviewed 54 burnout studies from around the world, which...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 47

CMS final rule focuses on improved care coordination

December 5, 2013

CMS has finalized payment rates and policies for 2014, including a proposal to support care management outside routine office interactions, the agency announced last week. The final rule sets payment rates for physicians and non-physician practitioners paid under the Medicare Physician Fee...

Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12

CMS deficiency information: Is your facility prepared?

December 1, 2013

CMS has posted publicly accessible hospital survey deficiency data on its website, and plans to do so on a regular basis. Hospitals must be prepared to acknowledge CMS deficiencies and answer questions about practitioners and the care they provide. Medical services professionals...

Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider - Volume 10, Issue 12

Credentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider, December 2013

December 1, 2013

Navigating the pitfalls of APP credentialing and competency assessments

The expanding role of APPs in healthcare has forced hospitals to find creative ways to appropriately credential and evaluate practitioners

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Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Leadership equation: 7C + 1 = successPart 4: Handling competition

December 1, 2013

Given the lack of economic alignments, shrinking or flat reimbursements, and emergence of new technologies, it is almost inevitable that there will be competition between physicians and hospitals. The real challenge is figuring out a way to successfully and simultaneously collaborate and compete...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Joint Commission on OPPE/FPPE

December 1, 2013

For most medical staffs, OPPE and FPPE have become everyday parlance. Others still think of them as four-letter words. Now, several years after OPPE and FPPE were added to The Joint Commission's standards for hospitals, some facilities are still struggling to perfect their practices.

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