No focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) is perfect, and prospective FPPE has its weaknesses as well. Foremost among them is that a prospective focused review process cannot account for all potential variations or unexpected factors.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 22
Pressure continues to mount on hospitals to improve their patient satisfaction scores, particularly through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, or...
The traditional self-governing medical staff is alive, and in many cases, necessary. Both regulatory standards and case law have made it clear that the medical staff is accountable to the governing body to oversee and manage the quality of medical care in the hospital...
When a physician applies to a medical staff, one of the first things that credentialing specialists verify is the physician’s state license. If the license looks clean, the physician must be good, right? Not necessarily.
Although MSPs often work behind the scenes, what they add to the focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) process directly affects the quality of physicians who practice at their hospitals.
