The South Dakota Supreme Court (the “Court”) recently reversed a circuit court’s decision ordering several healthcare providers to produce peer review materials. The Court disagreed with the lower court’s interpretation of the state’s peer review privilege and found that a court-created crime-...
This week, CRC Daily covers OPPE. An organization’s decision to employ physicians may require reexamination of existing information-sharing approaches to promote compliant, confidential, and effective use of performance data. Most medical staffs are rightfully extremely protective of...
Most credentialing work is considered a peer review activity performed by the medical staff and governing board. As a result, state laws generally grant some amount of peer review protection to those parts of a particular credentials file that are acted upon by medical staff committees or the...
In today's litigious healthcare climate, malpractice lawsuits can herald negligent credentialing claims that spell trouble for medical staff leaders and MSPs. Share the following tips with the practitioners on your staff to head off these legal sticky wickets.