Five years ago, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission (IMLCC) officially launched its expedited licensure process. Its objectives are to make the licensure process more efficient for physicians who practice in multiple states, while maintaining the integrity and standards of...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 6
Although credentialing, privileging, and provider enrollment are distinct and separate processes, there are many similarities and duplicate items to complete in each process. Often, organizations keep credentialing and enrollment siloed, wasting time, frustrating practitioners, and costing the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 6
Erin Muellenberg is a former medical staff services director in a large community-based hospital and now serves as a healthcare attorney for Polsinelli Law Firm, practicing exclusively medical staff law. She was the chair of the NAMSS Education Committee for 2020 and 2021 and is intimately...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 1
The Texas Court of Appeals (the "Court") reversed and vacated a trial court's temporary injunction ordering a hospital to grant temporary hospital privileges to a physician for the sole purpose of administering ivermectin to a patient suffering from the aftereffects of COVID-19.
The...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 12