Many medical staff services departments are challenged to redesign clinical privileges in all specialties to ensure that they are criteria-based and compliant with regulatory standards for FPPE and OPPE—and they have to do it in a timely manner with limited resources. Put The Greeley Company’s...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 14
If you’re an e-mail junkie like me, you may have, at one point, thought, “Boy, wouldn’t it be convenient if I could e-mail my doctor?” You know how it goes—you seek out a private place at work where you can call the doctor’s office to report a persistent cough or mysterious rash, and inevitably...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 14
Clinical observers are a category of practitioners that organizations tend to overlook. It is common, especially in academic medical centers, for practitioners to observe or shadow a member of the medical staff. Organizations should have policies in place to govern that process.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 14
A hospital should never make an improper report to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). A report made incorrectly can have a negative effect on a physician’s career and can lead to litigation. Therefore, medical staff bylaws should clearly define certain criteria.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 14
The words you choose can make the difference between well-written bylaws that protect the medical staff and bylaws that set the medical staff up for disaster, says Mary Hoppa, MD, MBA, CMSL, senior consultant with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. in Marblehead, MA...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 13
