With the Joint Commission stressing the importance of OPPE and FPPE in recent years, medical staffs are facing a growing challenge credentialing and privileging low- and no-volume practitioners. A recent HCPro survey found that nearly a quarter of respondents reported credentialing low-volume...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 8
Littleton (New Hampshire) Regional Healthcare relies on locum tenens physicians to augment its permanent medical staff. The facility doesn't have much choice, says Julie Hatley, CPMSM, CPCS, manager of medical staff services at the 25-bed critical access hospital. "We're a small...
The Medicare provider database reportedly lists thousands of doctors and other providers as graduates from medical schools that have been defunct for a century, according to a MedPage Today story posted last week. Many of these errors were apparently caused by the practitioner...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 7
The picture for healthcare employment is complicated, and no one would argue that things are getting simpler or more lucrative for many hospitals. However, the 2015 MSP Salary Survey picture is not a gloomy one.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 7
When it comes to titles, there was some common ground among survey respondents across salary levels and medical staff office size. Overall, the most named titles for respondents in the 2015 MSP Salary Survey were:
If accreditation were based on a straightforward, coordinated set of requirements across states and agencies, no one would have questions. Instead, there are myriad requirements that can seem to conflict. For help navigating the chaotic space where accreditiation and credentialing intersect,...
