The OPPE/FPPE task force should select hospital-level indicators under the direction of medical staff leaders from each department or division. Ideally, the same medical staff leaders who assisted in creating the list of potential indicators will also help the task force make official selections...
How do you make OPPE and FPPE more than just an item on the regulatory compliance checklist? Although it has been 10 years since The Joint...Read More »
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (the “Court”) denied a plaintiff’s request to compel a hospital to disclose its incident...Read More »
“The difficulty with local peer review is that there is the possibility that a group of young surgeons may have an incentive to declare an older...Read More »
The exponential increase in the use of advanced practice professionals (APP) in ambulatory and acute care settings has increased patient access to care. However, this availability has put stress on the credentialing community. The C-suite, medical staff leaders, and MSPs struggle with...
Before sending peer review information, a medical staff should first look at state laws to ensure it has a mechanism in place to make disclosures...Read More »
Increasingly, mergers and acquisitions are making strange bedfellows of acute, ambulatory, and postacute care facilities. As these newly aligned...Read More »
Although ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) has been around for about a decade, it is still challenging for institutions to create meaningful data that reflects their practices. This sample advance practice professional reappointment performance profile report that can be used to...
