The New Year’s dust (or confetti, as the case may be) has settled, routine is restored, and 2017 stretches ahead. For MSPs, medical staff leaders...Read More »
When a professional dispute arises, the last thing you want to discover is an ill-defined (or nonexistent) path toward resolution. Having a clear policy in place that identifies who will lead dispute resolution and what specific steps must be taken removes a lot of uncertainty from the equation...
FPPE is a process that requires a formal improvement plan with some form of monitoring to determine whether the improvement has been achieved. Whether an FPPE is initiated based on case review decisions by a peer review committee or evaluations of OPPE reports, having a defined format for the...
There are many reasons why physicians and medical staff members take leave of absences. Whatever the reason, it’s important to have a policy in place to address reappointment following a leave of absence. Today’s free resource is an outline on how to create a leave of absence policy. It was...
Although CMS has now substantially limited the ability of a hospital to establish provider-based (PB) locations, they have been extremely popular...Read More »
Most credentialing work is considered a peer review activity performed by the medical staff and governing board. As a result, state laws generally...Read More »
Frequently, emergency and disaster privileges are confused. Emergency privileges are those privileges that the medical staff has granted to...Read More »
