Your clinical privilege forms need to be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure they reflect up-to-date criteria requirements and standards for the procedure or specialty in question. For example, a procedure that used to be considered a special, noncore privilege when you developed your forms...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 7
With negligent credentialing suits on the rise, MSPs and medical staff leaders must implement approaches that help cultivate a high-caliber medical staff, promote patient safety, and diminish legal risk. But given the widening array of staffing models and technological advances at play in today'...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 7
On April 12, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed into law senate bill (SB) 1148, which moves to bar healthcare entities in the state from requiring physicians to maintain board certification in order to gain medical licensure, reimbursement, or admitting privileges. The bill is the latest—and...
At the 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, when speakers Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, and Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, told audience members that locum tenens do not need a medical staff category, there was a collective gasp in the crowd. It was evident...
Advanced practice professionals (APP) can bring valuable insight to medical staff committee roles and reduce the pressure on physician leaders to take on more than they can chew.
