Credentialing and peer reviewing providers involves many complex processes. During the recent Credentialing Resource Center Virtual Symposium, speakers discussed the ins and outs of those processes and shared their best practices when addressing the red flags that come along with them.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 12
How does your medical staff team handle a situation in which a physician with documented red flags resigns during an investigation or prior to an investigation?
For many organizations, an OPPE program is the first systematic process for large-scale practitioner performance improvement. Progress can be sidelined by this inexperience, or by an ineffective approach to selecting indicators, reviewing reports, and engaging practitioners.
In 2023 and beyond, credentialing specialists will face the reality that more and more applicants being recruited by hospitals and vetted by credentialing personnel and bodies will have significant concerns, blemishes, pink flags, and red flags in their backgrounds.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 12
The California Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a trial court’s decision striking a physician’s complaint that a hospital falsely reported him to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), finding that the hospital’s actions were protected by the state’s anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit...
The medical staff office doesn’t assess practitioners’ competence, but MSPs can ensure that the organized medical staff has the bylaws, policies, and procedures in place to conduct a consistent, fair, effective, and well-documented peer review process. In addition, the medical staff services...
