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.
Encroaching physician shortages and quality-driven payment reforms are shaking up traditional medical staff compositions and changing the course of practitioner privileging and credentialing. As a result, growing ranks of midwives, NPs, PAs, clinical pharmacists, and other allied health...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 6
Negligent credentialing cases have picked up steam in recent years, but for the medical staff office, litigation poses less of a threat than shepherding practitioners through the application process against MSPs' better judgment.
Prospective proctoring is a powerful and greatly underutilized tool. The approach involves a one-on-one discussion with the practitioner of concern to learn how he or she will tackle a specific patient care problem and to understand his or her clinical thinking. It is a vehicle for previewing...
The 2016 MSP Salary Survey concludes May 6. While we collect the final responses and develop our expert-driven analysis, here's a look at the results so far, based on the roughly 875 responses we received at the time of publication.
In April, two states took action against the American Board of Medical Specialties Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Oklahoma became the first state to sign a law stating that MOC cannot be a requirement for physicians seeking medical licensure or hospital clinical privileges in that...
