Beyond the functional similarities, provider enrollment and medical staff services also share unlikely career trajectories and challenges, as demonstrated by the write-in responses to the 2017 MSP Salary Survey highlighted in the following sections.
Physician employment has always required finely tuned coordination between the human resource department, the appropriate clinical department, and the credentialing function (i.e., MSPs).
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 2
With physician employment on the rise, advanced practice professionals (APP) gaining clinical and political ground, and the trend toward team-based care shaping peer review, today’s medical staffs are more diverse and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 1
The New Year’s dust (or confetti, as the case may be) has settled, routine is restored, and 2017 stretches ahead. For MSPs, medical staff leaders, and quality personnel, there’s no better time to take stock of last year’s professional developments, applying lessons learned to current approaches...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 12
Although CMS has now substantially limited the ability of a hospital to establish provider-based (PB) locations, they have been extremely popular over the past few years because they allow a hospital to bill for services as if they were provided at the main hospital building (i.e., each service...
A new California law lifts a century-old ban on direct physician employment and aims to end a “doctor desert” among the smallest and most remote hospitals.