Even if you can't make it to the 14th annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium May 12-13 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, that doesn't mean you can't benefit from it. Throughout the spring, we invited MSPs and medical staff leaders to submit forms and tools for a chance to...
The Joint Commission issued its Standards BoosterPak™ for Focused Professional Practice Evaluation/Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE/OPPE) in January. The accrediting agency didn't change any of the standards or elements of performance related to MS....
Although in many hospitals, complaints or concerns regarding physicians go to the quality committee and then the peer review committee (if need be), in some hospitals, the CMO screens all peer review cases. If this is the case at your facility, the medical executive committee (MEC) should review...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 6
If a physician doesn’t have much activity in your hospital but is active at an ambulatory clinic or surgery center, current clinical competence can be determined in several ways.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 2
The economic forces of healthcare have created a subset of low- and no-volume practitioners who may direct inpatient volume to the hospital but rarely step foot in the hospital. Unfortunately, that means the medical staff has little or no performance data to...
Physicians are no strangers to concurrent proctoring. At some point in his or her career, every physician is proctored and serves as a proctor, but there is a lot more to this medical staff responsibility than meets the eye. With many other duties, physicians may not...
