Since the days of Semmelweis and Nightingale, patient outcomes have been measured and evaluated. When The Joint Commission introduced focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) in 2007, it formally prescribed that healthcare organizations must perform a targeted assessment of practitioners...
The Illinois Supreme Court (the "Court") recently upheld an appellate court's decision that two hospitals had to turn over a physician's staff privilege applications to the plaintiffs suing for negligent credentialing because the documents are not privileged under the Health Care Professional...
In 2011, CMS issued a final rule that stated a hospital or critical access hospital seeking telemedicine services (the originating site) can use the credentialing and privileging information from the telemedicine provider’s site (the distant site) to make credentialing and privileging decisions...
Developing core privilege forms is a lengthy and complex process that requires weeks of researching specialty medical societies for competency benchmarks. Core Privileges for Physicians, Sixth Edition,...
