A new report from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and the Robert Graham Center revealed that physician leadership and comprehensive, effective EHR use are two of six factors linked to the success of an accountable care organization (ACO).
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...
Many medical staffs invest a considerable amount of time thinking about or actually developing and trying to implement ambulatory privileges. Before your medical staff does so, make sure to answer this questions: Are you required to have separate ambulatory privileges for those physicians...
The Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) is proud to present our membership community with nine noteworthy tools and forms that have been contributed by your peers in the trenches and evaluated by the accomplished experts on our...
Ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) are very reliant on the ratings of their patients. Below are a few tips to ensure customer satisfaction courtesy of Nicholas Frisch, MD, MBA, an orthopedic surgeon with Ascension Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, Michigan, and Bald Mountain Surgery Center in Lake...
