Physicians tend to be paid on a production basis (e.g., fee for service or work relative value units), and time away from seeing patients costs them money. In the past, physicians considered giving time to medical staff work a reasonable trade-off for the services the hospital provided them in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 46
In many hospitals, there are simply too few incentives, too little personal satisfaction, and not enough spare time and extra money to be made to readily induce physicians into leadership and administrative roles. To overcome these barriers to entry, the medical staff organization must have an...
Today’s free resource is a grid to help you decide whether practitioners are eligible for membership, clinical privileges, and what type of competency assessment is necessary. Several different types of practitioners will present before the credentials committee or medical executive committee...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (the "Court") ordered a hospital to comply with a subpoena served by the U.S. government to produce documents relevant to an ongoing federal investigation.
In its decision, the Court followed the predominant view of federal...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 45
From 2010-2014, the unnecessary use of stents to clear blocked coronary arteries fell by 50%. Now researchers are trying to decide if the decline is due to new practice guidelines issued to cardiologists in 2009, or if it is because physicians are upcoding patients’ disease to make the stent...
