Reporting to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) has nothing to do with a failure to meet some standard in an employment agreement, provided that there has been no similar action...
When an employed physician leaves a hospital, a credentialing best practice is that the “next” hospital asks both the medical staff services department (MSSD) and the HR department for a reference. Why? Unfortunately, there are occasions when a hospital will terminate the employment of a...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 2
With physician employment on the rise, advanced practice professionals (APP) gaining clinical and political ground, and the trend toward team-based care shaping peer review, today’s medical staffs are more diverse and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 1
The New Year’s dust (or confetti, as the case may be) has settled, routine is restored, and 2017 stretches ahead. For MSPs, medical staff leaders, and quality personnel, there’s no better time to take stock of last year’s professional developments, applying lessons learned to current approaches...
An analysis of 803 acute care hospitals found that switching to a physician employment model had little influence on four primary composite quality metrics—risk-adjusted mortality rates, 30-day readmission rates, patient satisfaction scores for common medical conditions, and length of stay.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 12
Although CMS has now substantially limited the ability of a hospital to establish provider-based (PB) locations, they have been extremely popular over the past few years because they allow a hospital to bill for services as if they were provided at the main hospital building (i.e., each service...
