In our latest practitioner check-in, we catch up with Teresa Miller, CPMSM, CPCS, senior medical staff specialist at INTEGRIS Health in Oklahoma City. She offers a window into the nuanced role that entails meticulous file reviews, collaboration with department chairs, and active...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 4
The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (the “Court”) found that a surgeon who was denied privileges at a hospital had alleged sufficient facts for most of her claims to deny the hospital’s motion to dismiss them.
The plaintiff, Rachel Bishop, MD, filed...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 3
Communication with new applicants regarding their request for clinical privileges will help clarify what may be required on the part of the applicant (e.g., additional documentation specific to certain privileges and what that documentation needs to be). It is also important to be sure that...
MSPs and credentialing leaders have another case from which to draw lessons on how to handle late-career clinicians, namely the Scripps Clinical Medical Group settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in December.
Work-product privilege is a type of peer review protection law that prevents information associated with the peer review process from being discovered in court. This protection is based on the idea that physicians won’t candidly discuss a colleague’s shortcomings if their statements later could...
