The Kentucky Supreme Court (the “Court”) recently reversed a Court of Appeals ruling that would have allowed patients to sue hospitals for...Read More »
This free resource is a sample reappointment OPPE scorecard courtesy of Beebe Healthcare, a nonprofit community hospital in Lewes, Delaware, that upholds professional practice evaluation as one landmark in the greater quality landscape.
Finding that external peer review reports are not protected from disclosure by the state constitution, the Florida Supreme Court (the “Court”)...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 grant some amount of peer review protection to those parts of a particular credentials file that are acted upon by medical staff committees or the...
Over the past 15 years, an increasing number of hospitals have adopted some form of multi-specialty peer review. Before discussing this shift,...Read More »
The Appellate Court of Illinois for the Second District (the “Court”) upheld a county court's order requiring a hospital to produce notes authored...Read More »
A number of factors are driving physicians to focus less on practicing in the hospital and more
on their outpatient practices. This trend leaves hospitals wondering how to best manage low- and
no-volume providers, that is, those who see no or very few inpatients. Many medical staffs...
The Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) is the premier destination for credentialing, privileging, and peer review expertise. Membership provides MSPs, quality professionals, and medical staff leaders with a collection of continuously updated tools, best practice strategies, and compliance tips...
