Along with the many other duties that medical staff leaders take on when they step into their new roles, they must play a part in the credentialing process. It is a mistake to assume that because a physician has been on your medical staff for a while and has gone through the credentialing...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 8
Pulse check: Experts weigh in on last year's NPDB Guidebook updates
Last April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized the first substantive updates to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook in more than a decade. Roughly one...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 8
About four years ago, we (and when I say "we," I mean "me," as I am a one-woman office) instituted evergreen letters. The evergreen serves as a verification of privileges and as a clinical reference. On our evergreen form, the department chair completes the evaluation section, and I complete a...
The Supreme Court of Texas (the "Court") recently held that a trial court failed to adequately review allegedly privileged documents?to determine if they were disclosable pursuant to an exception to the state's peer review statute--before issuing an order compelling Christus Santa Rosa Health...
One of the most common situations that causes attribution difficulties is when care of a patient is handed off to multiple practitioners. Often, staff will list in the medical record the name of the physician who admitted the patient; however, throughout the patient's stay, the record is not...
New PSO guidance raises questions over patient safety work product privilege
In May, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published Guidance Regarding Patient Safety Work Product and Providers' External Obligations in the hopes of clarifying...
