According to a 2016 report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States could experience a shortage of 61,700–94,700 physicians by 2025. As the physician pool dwindles, and technology rapidly advances, more and more medical staffs will turn to telemedicine solutions to...
For legal and financial reasons, economic credentialing is a concern of the governing board, not of the medical staff. Antitrust laws preclude...Read More »
All hospitals should have policies regarding conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest policy goes a long way toward eliminating the possibility of undisclosed conflicts. This conflict of interest policy delineates the expectation of disclosure of conflict of interest and how to resolve the...
CMS requires that medical staffs must have a policy for fair hearing and appeal. An applicant or an individual holding a medical staff appointment...Read More »
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 »
