Two years ago, the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) launched its online repository to provide medical staff offices a place to quickly find and upload primary source practitioner affiliation history. Since then, the NAMSS Practitioner Affiliation Sharing Source (NAMSS PASS)...
In April 2015, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) published its first new guidebook in 13 years. It includes a significant expansion of the NPDB’s definition of an investigation with direct impact on reporting requirements for physicians or dentists who resign while under investigation...
In April 2015, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) published its first new guidebook in 13 years. It includes a significant expansion of the NPDB's definition of an investigation with direct impact on reporting requirements for physicians or dentists who resign while under investigation...
When developing a checklist to audit your credentials files, start with the staff category with the most elements in the file (e.g., active staff), says Lisa Kuklinski, BBA, CPMSM, CPCS, manager of medical staff services at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. From there, you can...
Nine states had passed the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Interstate Medical Licensure Compact legislation when CRCJ spoke with Humayun Chaudhry, DO, MACP, president and CEO of the FSMB. The Compact won't mean the end of current licensing processes...
