Developing core privilege forms from scratch can be a lengthy, complex process that requires weeks of researching specialty medical societies for competency benchmarks. Further, core privileges must be reviewed periodically to ensure relevance to the care provided at your facility. Fortunately,...
National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week is a time to celebrate what MSPs do. It can also be a time to assess your relationship with your medical staff leadership. Are you on the same page when it comes to credentialing and privileging practitioners? OPPE and FPPE? If you think your...
In 1992, President George Bush signed a Congressional House Joint Resolution proclaiming the first week in November as National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week. In the 23 years since then, medical staff services have become ever more integral to healthcare organizations of all sizes....
Citing the Texas "anticompetitive action exception" to the peer review privilege, the Supreme Court of Texas (the "Court") ordered a hospital to produce a number of peer review documents.
The internal peer review processes at hospitals aim to measure and monitor physicians' performance through evaluations by other physicians. Peer reviewers are typically physicians in the same community and specialty as the physician who's being evaluated. However, in certain situations,...
In April 2013, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) began exploring the idea of using an interstate compact for physician licensing. The idea behind the compact was to make licensing more efficient for physicians who practice in multiple states while also maintaining the integrity and...
