CRC Daily opens this week’s coverage of the ever-evolving practitioner vetting landscape with a closer look at criteria for managed care credentialing.
Accreditation and regulatory standards for managed care credentialing establish a minimum standard that health plans use to...
MSPs routinely collect individual practitioner disciplinary actions and malpractice claims data through the NPDB and insurance carriers. However, hospitals often do not compare trends in the aggregate data for specific states. In this article, we take a look at some of the data trends, the...
Many organizations continue to struggle with appropriately attributing care provided by advanced practice professionals (APP), especially when there are specific supervision requirements in place that must be met before the patient encounter can be closed. Coding such encounters appropriately...
The hospital-only specialty, which originated in primary care in the 1990s, has caught on throughout many sub-specialties. Among OB-GYN, gastroenterology, and general surgery services, hospitalist growth has been driven in part by physicians' desires for greater work-life balance, particularly...
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Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 8
Last April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized the first substantive updates to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook in more than a decade. Roughly one year after the rollout, experts say the broadened reporting expectations have weightier...
