The Joint Commission (TJC) has published a list of the most frequently cited elements of performance (EP) from surveys conducted during 2021 to help healthcare organizations proactively address similar issues at their own facilities.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 6
Although credentialing, privileging, and provider enrollment are distinct and separate processes, there are many similarities and duplicate items to complete in each process. Often, organizations keep credentialing and enrollment siloed, wasting time, frustrating practitioners, and costing the...
The story regarding Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and late-stage physicians carries on in the legal arena. In February 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged YNHH, the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, with violating federal law by adopting and...
As of this month, all applicants seeking their initial physician licensure in Massachusetts or applying for license renewal through the state's Board of Registration in Medicine (BORIM) must complete training on implicit bias. Massachusetts joins several other states that already require similar...
Application processing turnaround time is one of the most commonly reported metrics within a CVO. Timely credentialing is critical to the organization and its customers. The credentialing process almost always takes a longer amount of time to complete than originally anticipated. There is a high...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 6
Erin Muellenberg is a former medical staff services director in a large community-based hospital and now serves as a healthcare attorney for Polsinelli Law Firm, practicing exclusively medical staff law. She was the chair of the NAMSS Education Committee for 2020 and 2021 and is intimately...