Six years ago, Pocono Health System created a committee to streamline the process of bringing new technology and devices to the hospital. What has the New Innovations Committee learned since implementation, and has the initiative been a success?
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 8
Last April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized the first substantive updates to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook in more than a decade. Roughly one year after the rollout, experts say the broadened reporting expectations have weightier...
As fewer physicians take on voluntary duties, such as proctoring, your organization might struggle to find physicians who will serve as proctors. One suggestion is to make proctoring a medical staff duty that is spelled out in your governing documents. Today's free resource is a rules and...
The Office of Inspector General maintains a List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) database, which is updated on a monthly basis. Medical staff stakeholders can search the database to identify entities and individuals who are excluded from Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare...
This week, CRC Daily covers credentialing, which is among the many duties that require effective collaboration between medical staff leaders and MSPs. It is a mistake to assume that a practitioner who has been on the medical staff for a while and has gone through the application process...
The healthcare industry continues to face a present and future staffing shortage. As a result, many practitioners have decided to reenter the clinical field after an extended period of inactivity, i.e., a leave of absence (LOA). When it comes to practitioner LOA, there are a number of issues to...
