Medical Staff Services Department

CRC Daily kicks off this week’s exploration of vetting and governance approaches for advanced practice providers (APP) with an overview...Read More »

In the HCPro book, The Top 45 Medical Staff...Read More »

Along with the many other duties that medical staff leaders take on when they step into their new roles, they must play a part in the...Read More »

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986, which formed the legislative impetus for the NPDB, specifies that organizations must report a...Read More »

Last April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized the first substantive updates to the National Practitioner Data Bank (...Read More »

Q: Must employed physicians be credentialed and privileged?Read More »

I was sitting in my office one day, thinking about how little of this fine country I've seen and wondering what it would be like to travel the...Read More »

About four years ago, we (and when I say "we," I mean "me," as I am a one-woman office) instituted evergreen letters. The evergreen serves as a...Read More »

The Office of Inspector General maintains a List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) database, which is updated on a monthly basis. Medical...Read More »