As medical staff leaders struggle to motivate physicians to fulfill their proctoring obligations, some have considered offering compensation to encourage those physicians to complete their evaluations. But before adopting this practice, a medical staff should ensure it has...
I thought about work while I was on vacation last week: I wondered, “When CRC readers get a break, what do they do?” Our most recent MSP Salary Survey found that 50% of respondents handle credentialing and privileging for as many as 400 practitioners, and 21% reported that their department...
The national rate of physician turnover held steady at just under 7% during the past two years, but the number of physicians who retired from practice increased sharply in 2013, to an unprecedented 18%, according to the ninth annual Physician Retention Survey from the American Medical Group...
Physicians in states with disclose, apology and offer (DA&O) laws must still have payouts made on their behalf reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the ruling in May, but few knew about it until mid-August when...
What are regulators really looking for from your medical staff services department? When CMS seems to want one thing and accreditors want something else, you need to cut through the confusion. Tune in to HCPro’s new webcast “Verify and Comply: Meet Your Top Credentialing Challenges,” on...
