The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is bypassing rules for how value-based purchasing should roll out and thus is ignoring key requirements set forth in the health reform law, the American Hospital Association said in a strongly-worded 14-page letter released late Tuesday.
Hospitalists are an integral, indispensable part of hospitals' around-the-clock operations. They are increasingly responsible for in-hospital patient care and necessary for managing publicly reportable clinical and service-related outcomes. At the same time, hospitalists can be...
A key part to any credentialing application is the attestation, acknowledgment, and release forms. These documents protect your organization as well as the entities that release information to your organization throughout the credentialing process.
Understanding which medical staff members are eligible to serve as medical staff leaders can be challenging, particularly in markets in which hospitals compete aggressively with each other for patients and resources. On HCPro's e-mail talk group "Medical Staff Talk," one...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 9
Editor's note: The following is excerpted from The Medical Staff Professional's Handbook, by Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, and Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPMSM, CPCS. To order or for more information, visit www.hcmarketplace.com/...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 9
Most positions in healthcare are fairly streamlined. Nurses' and physicians' titles are consistent from one facility to another, as are administrative positions like directors, VPs, and CEOs.
