This sample policy ensures that information regarding each practitioner’s scope of privileges is disseminated and made available to all appropriate internal persons or entities and updated as changes in clinical privileges are made. This policy also lays out the steps a hospital staff member...
Why should a medical staff establish methods for addressing conflicts of interest? It’s not as if turf wars can break out among specialists within...Read More »
The key to successful onboarding is global understanding among program administrators about why the process exists and what effects it has on the practitioner and the organization. In addition, the program’s end users (new practitioners) must learn how to be successful in providing care for...
It’s a mild April morning. Dr. Smith, an accomplished surgeon, and Bill Loney, an affable—if absent-minded—general surgery practice manager,...Read More »
A compliance code describes how the hospital intends to comply with laws and regulations by establishing requirements its staff must follow in...Read More »
In addition to employment, many organizations utilize a contract to better align and integrate the parties involved. Such contracts can run the...Read More »
To engage in credentialing by proxy for telemedicine practitioners, originating-site hospitals/critical access hospitals must explicitly recognize the option in their medical staff governing documents (e.g., bylaws and/or policy). This resource provides sample language to get you started.
The United States could face a shortage of 40,800–104,900 physicians by 2030, according to a March study from the Association of American Medical...Read More »
