Between mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, exclusive contracts, and physician-owned hospitals and clinics, it’s no wonder physicians find themselves knee deep in conflicts of interest. Unfortunately for medical staffs, these conflicts can hamper peer review efforts.
In some hospitals, MSPs collect ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) data and help orchestrate the entire process. In other hospitals, the quality department owns OPPE, and MSPs simply disseminate the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 7
By now, medical staffs know the purpose of focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE): It’s a focused review to evaluate a practitioner’s performance of newly requested privileges or privileges marred by competency concerns. It’s been several years since The Joint Commission rolled out...
Although MSPs often work behind the scenes, what they add to the focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) process directly affects the quality of physicians who practice at their hospitals.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 6
As long as doctors treat patients effectively and efficiently, they are doing their jobs well, right? Maybe that was the case in years past, but the demands placed on today’s doctors are more complex than that. Although treating patients still remains at the heart of a doctor’s job description,...
Is the document you just filed in a physician’s confidential peer review file really considered a peer review document? Are you maintaining meeting minutes in such a way that if a physician sues the organization, he or she won’t be able to use them against the hospital in a court of law?