How does your medical staff team handle a situation in which a physician with documented red flags resigns during an investigation or prior to an investigation?
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 12
Healthcare inequities have plagued certain populations based on many factors, including race, religion, class, sexual orientation, and language. To help healthcare organizations address this situation, NCQA launched its Health Equity Accreditation programs, which provide frameworks of actionable...
California will become the latest state to enact a law cracking down on physicians who engaged in sexual misconduct with a patient. The new law, which goes into effect January 2023, requires the state's medical board to permanently revoke the physician’s license.
For many organizations, an OPPE program is the first systematic process for large-scale practitioner performance improvement. Progress can be sidelined by this inexperience, or by an ineffective approach to selecting indicators, reviewing reports, and engaging practitioners.
In 2023 and beyond, credentialing specialists will face the reality that more and more applicants being recruited by hospitals and vetted by credentialing personnel and bodies will have significant concerns, blemishes, pink flags, and red flags in their backgrounds.
