When it comes to staying ahead of critical practitioner vetting deadlines, such as privilege expiration dates, automation is your best friend, experts agree. The software on the market today offers a bevy of built-in reminders—checks, suspense dates, and popups—to help credentialers keep track...
Credentialing and privileging lapses in the ambulatory arena have a familiar calling card: too few staff wearing too many hats. Compared to the average hospital, ambulatory facilities have much shorter rosters of affiliated practitioners, meaning a lone employee may constitute the entire...
"Experience teaches us that this is occurring across the country," says Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS. "APPs are expanding skills under the tutelage of their supervising or collaborating physician sponsors. Sometimes this is being done without the organization’s knowledge or approval. If an...
Once the decision is made to offer APPs the opportunity to train up, the organization is now ready to determine the policy and procedures necessary to accomplish this goal. Policy considerations should include the following:
A purpose statement or objective: The organization must
When exploring the possibility of bringing APPs into your organization, start by taking stock of your current practitioners. Are any APPs already practicing there? If so, what are they doing, and where are they doing it?
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