You are finishing out the second year of your term as president of the medical staff. It has been a fascinating journey, and even though you have been on staff at Better Care Medical Center for close to 10 years, you have very little idea of how things operate in the overall functioning of the...
The rise of retail clinics and urgent care centers has led to patients being less reliant on primary care physicians (PCP) for their health needs. According to an analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute, from 2012 to 2016 office visits to PCPs declined 18%.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
How do you transition to a paperless credentialing process that enables document sharing throughout your health system, thus reducing rework, waste, and redundancy? How do you leverage your credentialing database to resolve data needs that are beyond the scope of credentialing to strengthen your...
“Anything that cuts through Medicaid’s tangled web of red tape is good for Texas physicians and good for our patients … The centralized credentialing organization should cut away a big knot of Medicaid hassles.”
A poll of more than 350 physicians found that many of them provided patients with some lifestyle change recommendations to reduce the risk for disease but didn’t believe patients actually followed their advice.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
“I did not know that I’d been nominated,” confesses John McDonald, MD, MSHM, CMQ, referring to his win as the 2018 Credentialing Resource Center Medical Staff Leader of the Year.
