The 2014 MSP Salary Survey included additional questions related to administration and management in our continuing bid to get a better understanding of today's medical staff services department. The takeaway: Even as higher-level salaries seem to stay the course, the MSSD is performing far...
CMS' final rule allowing multihospital systems to have a "unified, integrated" medical staff goes into effect this month. As with other Condition of Participation (CoP) modifications, changes won't happen overnight, and the long-term ramifications for medical staffs aren't clear. Medical...
Trying to get MSPs excited about their role in managing and tracking expirables is like trying to make a trip to the dentist sound like it will be fun. Actually, a trip to the dentist might be more exciting.
Iowa continues to see a steady increase in its supply of physicians, despite gloomy predictions that physicians would flee the profession because of big changes in healthcare. A new report from the Iowa Board of Medicine says 6,829 physicians worked in the state last year. That was up 2%...
As we update our Clinical Privilege White Paper library, I’m often amazed at how much one procedure or specialty can change in a short time. New techniques and technologies are emerging, established best practices are evolving, and there are some changes that we have yet to address....
If you missed our March webcast, Practicing Medicine Longer: Legal and Clinical Considerations for an Aging Physician Population, tune in to hear the entire presentation by Elizabeth “Libby” Snelson, JD, and Stephen H. Miller, MD, MPH, on May 14 from 1-2:30 p.m. ET. This is a...