Patricia Furci, RN, MA, Esq., and Samuel J. Furci, MPA, tackle the issues medical staffs must be aware of regarding new reporting requirements. The updated National Practitioner Data Bank Guidebook was released on April 6, 2015. This is the first...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 8
HCPro's MSP Salary Survey asks respondents to name the entities that accredit their organization. Since 2012, the percentage of respondents who have selected DNV has doubled, from 4% of respondents to 8% in 2015. DNV entered the accreditation fray in 2008, when it was granted deeming status by...
A record number of medical students applied to residency training programs this year. We take a look at the trends and what they mean for the future of medicine.
A long-standing survey practice of The Joint Commission is to request a copy of the operating room schedule on the day the surveyor(s) are to visit the OR and then select specific practitioner files to compare their privileges to the procedures they are performing on that given day. This may...
For MSPs, understanding the regulatory road map is essential to ensure credentialing and privileging practices are compliant with applicable state law and other regulatory standards. In this article, we point out some of the major ideas that should be understood when credentialing and...
In February 2014, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine entered into an agreement to transform the accreditation system for graduate medical education (GME)...