Burnout can often manifest in subtle ways, such as declining productivity or resistance to change. This is true in medical staff services too. Dawn Anderson, CPCS, CPMSM, director of credentialing, privileging, and licensing at Ob Hospitalist Group, witnessed this with her credentialing team.
Your organization should assess bylaws on an annual basis and whenever a regulatory body introduces a new standard or makes changes to an existing standard. However, a thorough assessment of your bylaws can occur less frequently.
Typically, recommendations for external peer review (EPR) arise from peer review committees that are faced with issues they can't resolve—lack of specialty expertise, conflicts of interest and other potential legal or credibility issues.
When faced with a negligent credentialing claim, two priorities are paramount regarding documents in the hospital’s or healthcare entity’s possession. Take steps to ensure that information does not go missing. In most organizations, a risk manager will place the relevant credentials file in a...
MSPs often struggle to receive information—including elements of medical staff applications—in a timely manner. Although the responsibility for providing the required information lies with the practitioner, there are certain things MSPs can do to be proactive.
Last week, MSB went over new CMS attestation requirements and potential pitfalls from a webinar conducted by the Hardenbergh Group. This article consisted of the five domains that are involved and ways in which members of the hospital can implement these domains. For the first...
