Ensuring you have competent physicians who are providing high-quality care is essential to the success of any healthcare organization. To evaluate physician care, hospitals and medical staffs have spent years developing their peer review processes. CMS and other major accreditors all require...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 10
To assist organizations in improving their credentialing and privileging processes, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has released an updated version of its Credentialing and Privileging Toolkit.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 9
As 2020 launched, healthcare executives had no way of knowing the havoc a novel virus that had emerged in Wuhan, China, would wreak on the healthcare industry. By March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization acknowledged a pandemic was in progress, and COVID-19 began impacting the U.S....
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 8
Healthcare organizations have become increasingly complex. In past decades, most organizations provided patient care within the walls of the facility. Essentially, no clinical care was provided outside the facility. This care delivery model is no longer the norm—it is actually quite the contrary...
Across the country, organizations and their staffs are uniting in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, and the virus has had an unprecedented effect on the healthcare industry.
The AMA is calling for barriers “based on arbitrary thresholds” to be lifted for prescription opioids. The organization says that these barriers, which were put into place in response to the opioid crisis, have hurt many patients receiving medication-assisted treatment (MAT).