Medical Staff Services Department

CMS' revisions present credentialing issues and decisions for hospitals reagrding the process by which therapeutic diets may be ordered. In this...Read More »

Federal officials have fined University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System $470,000 for allowing an anesthesiologist who was banned...Read More »

National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week starts Sunday. Although I hope you’re not in the office on Sunday, I also hope your medical staff...Read More »

I’ve been poring over my notes from the 2014 NAMSS Educational Conference and Exhibition, and discovered a quote from Hugh Greeley’s Tuesday...Read More »

For many workers, healthcare employment is going the way of fast food and retail: unstable schedules, punitive employers, and rigid management....Read More »

If you’re attending the NAMSS 38th Educational Conference and Exhibition next week in New Orleans, what are you looking forward to the most? Is...Read More »

When hospitals acquire practices and clinics, the medical staff services department (MSSD) faces credentialing and privileging questions. Will...Read More »

When CMS announced new finalized regulations in May, most of the coverage focused on the updates to the Conditions of...Read More »

With the proliferation of online review sites and message boards, it's become increasingly commonplace for patients to post their...Read More »

Go back in time to the months leading up to your hospital's last survey--how were you preparing? I have no doubt that you were...Read More »