Credentialing exists to protect patients, healthcare organizations, and healthcare providers. Thus, one of the most important functions of the medical executive committee (MEC) is vigilant oversight of the credentialing and privileging processes. If MEC members do this poorly, they will most...
As part of our new initiative to highlight the efforts of MSPs everywhere, the Credentialing Resource Center Team is recognizing stellar MSPs in the community by featuring them in Credentialing Resource Center Digest. In our second feature, we would like to recognize Tawna Miles...
A common mistake many medical staff services departments (MSSD) make is to combine a physician’s clinical evaluation request and the hospital affiliation verification request. Combining these requests can cause delays in getting the information MSPs need to complete the reappointment process.
The U.S. health care system is famously resistant to government-imposed change. It took decades to create Medicare and Medicaid, mostly due to opposition from the medical-industrial complex. Then it was nearly another half-century before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. But the COVID-19...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 6
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division (the “Court”) dismissed most of a claim but allowed a small part to proceed to discovery, finding that a hospital committee’s reversal of a decision to renew a practitioner’s medical privileges could...
Performing primary source verifications, credentialing and privileging practitioners, participating in committee meetings, ensuring practitioner competency, and safeguarding patient care are just a few of the crucial day-to-day tasks performed by MSPs. Under normal circumstances, these processes...
