Every organization should provide an orientation for physicians that covers its many organizational and regulatory requirements. MSPs should work with the president of the medical staff, the vice president of medical affairs, and the credentials committee to determine the type...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 7
On May 2, CMS finalized a new credentialing rule that relieves credentialing professionals of the onerous task of verifying the often numerous hospital affiliations and board licenses typically held by telemedicine providers.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a proposed rule that would exempt law enforcement data pertaining to ongoing investigations in the NPDB. Barring investigative information from disclosure means that hospitals and medical staffs would not be...
Colette Whitby, MD, sued Dr. John Warner Hospital after her employment was terminated due to lack of funding. In February 2011, Earl Sheehy, CEO and a member of the hospital's board of directors, informed Whitby that he would likely not be able to include her services in the...
Medical Staff Briefing (MSB) provides the strategies and updated information medical staff leaders and medical staff services professionals need to confidently meet their daily challenges. This monthly resource provides time-saving tools, expert advice, and...
The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a circuit court's decision to grant partial summary judgment to Ajdahan Bicak, MD, who was sued by Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas. When Bicak notified Mercy that he intended to open his own practice in early 2008, Mercy sued him...
