At Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, Texas, Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPCS, CPMSM, vice president of professional medical affairs, medical staff professional services, and regulatory affairs, faces a challenge that’s common among credentialing leaders: how to fairly and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 34, Issue 10
In some form or another, almost every practitioner has either heard of or been involved in a privileging criteria dispute. Fortunately, there are ways to resolve the situation—or to avoid it altogether.
The North Star for delegated credentialing is pretty straightforward: speed up payer attachment and reimbursement for hard-to-recruit rural providers without sacrificing the rigor MSPs expect.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 34, Issue 10
When the pandemic forced CommunityCare—a Tulsa, Oklahoma–based health plan—to go paperless “in three days,” credentialing manager LaShawna Brown, CPMSM, CPCS, found herself navigating wholesale change. The sprint to digitize catalyzed a longer journey: re-platforming, re-...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 34, Issue 10
As hospitals and health systems prepare for the 2026 update to The Joint Commission (TJC)’s accreditation standards, one of the most significant changes on the horizon is the proposed merger of the Life Safety (LS) and Environment of Care (EC) chapters into a single, comprehensive Physical...
