The ease of your credentialing process will either attract physicians or send them running, says William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE. The structure of separate departments for physician recruiting, human resources, physician practice management, medical staff services, and physician...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 8
By nature, I am an easygoing person and do not like to give a lot of direction, especially to the medical staff leaders that I "coach." I like to use the word coach because the medical staff members are the stars, and I believe that we, as medical staff services professionals, need to let them...
Patricia Furci, RN, MA, Esq., and Samuel J. Furci, MPA, tackle the issues medical staffs must be aware of regarding new reporting requirements. The updated National Practitioner Data Bank Guidebook was released on April 6, 2015. This is the first...
A look at the job duties of MSPs, including what non-medical staff service functions they oversee. According to the survey, one-third of MSPs oversee other departments, with the most common being continuing medical education. According to Anne Roberts, CPCS, CPMSM, this is a...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 8
The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook was released in April and included significant changes that may have repercussions for medical staff bylaws. MSPs need to examine the revised edition closely to understand what the changes mean for their organizations.
This can be a hard question to answer in the wake of a stressful "medical staff office emergency," such as a confrontational surgeon demanding privileges with 48 hours' notice. Recounting these incidents can be almost as stressful. However, writing down what happened...
