An excerpt is adapted from The Medical Staff Professional's Handbook, by Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, and Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPMSM, CPCS, explains how to avoid negligent credentialing.
Patients are becoming increasingly involved in their own care, often doing Internet research and coming to office visits or the hospital armed with questions and their own ideas about what constitutes appropriate care. It's a good thing.
Suspending a physician's privileges can be a tricky procedure, although it's a situation that every medical executive committee (MEC) faces at one point or another. Suspending physicians for impairment is typically very straightforward, but suspensions that result from...
The Appellate Court of Illinois, First Judicial District, upheld a trial court's decision to grant summary judgment for a physician on an action against him alleging that he violated the confidentiality provisions of the Medical Studies Act when he made statements to other...
Medical staff services isn't what it used to be, and no MSP would argue with that. What was once an administrative job has become a highly technical career, and it's getting more specialized by the day.
