In a traditional medical staff services department (MSSD), everyone works in the same building, often in the same office. However, that is starting to change, and MSPs must be prepared to work on or manage virtual teams, according to a session at the NAMSS National Educational...
Next week, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) will deploy enhancements aimed at improving users’ experience with the Data Bank system. They include streamlined filtering and selection processes for Primary Occupation, which previously required users to search a long, complicated list...
To celebrate National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week, the CRC blog has featured questions and answers on topics such as credentialing physicians in hospital-owned clinics, access to employed physicians’ contracts, and medical staff...
CMS' revisions present credentialing issues and decisions for hospitals reagrding the process by which therapeutic diets may be ordered. In this article we identify some of the issues that must be considered before hospitals can implement changes to their credentialing process in order to...
As MaineHealth and credentialing partner Synernet get standardized privilege sets ready to go, MSB spoke to Robert E. McArtor, MD, CMO of the eight-hospital system, about some of the keys to the success of this initiative. Among them are consensus, collaboration, and listening...
Federal officials have fined University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System $470,000 for allowing an anesthesiologist who was banned from Medicare and other federal programs to treat patients and bill the government for their care. The anesthesiologist at Ronald Reagan UCLA...
