You are finishing out the second year of your term as president of the medical staff. It has been a fascinating journey, and even though you have been on staff at Better Care Medical Center for close to 10 years, you have very little idea of how things operate in the overall functioning of the...
Despite the clear competency crossover in medical staff services and provider enrollment, not everyone is taking advantage of the alignment opportunities. Over half of respondents to the 2017 MSP Salary Survey (55.6%) who work on teams that facilitate medical staff services report that, while...
This week’s quick tip comes from an exchange adapted from HCPro’s webinar, “Privileging APPs: Issues and Solutions,” available now on demand. Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, advisory consultant with The Greeley Company and president of PRO-CON, an Illinois-based medical staff services consulting...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
Are you aware that there is credentialing going on in your hospital—and it’s not in the medical staff department? If you are, you’re in the minority. Just like many are not aware that a medical staff services department (MSSD) exists, few people give a thought to all those “others” roaming the...
“[Maintenance of Certification] is different. It is credentialization, not education. The tests don’t mirror real-world scenarios. They provide no educational value.”
The rise of retail clinics and urgent care centers has led to patients being less reliant on primary care physicians (PCP) for their health needs. According to an analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute, from 2012 to 2016 office visits to PCPs declined 18%.
