Most accreditors allow hospitals to grant temporary privileges to fulfill an important patient care, treatment, or service need, such as when a patient requires care involving specific clinical skills that are not currently available on the medical staff. Because the documentation of this need...
It’s a mild April morning. Dr. Smith, an accomplished surgeon, and Bill Loney, an affable—if absent-minded—general surgery practice manager,...Read More »
In addition to employment, many organizations utilize a contract to better align and integrate the parties involved. Such contracts can run the...Read More »
The use of temporary privileges is necessary but should be at best limited. Some organizations, however, continue to fall into the habit of...Read More »
While hospital quality departments have historically overseen the peer review process, today’s medical staff services teams are increasingly...Read More »
Ambulatory surgery centers have increased in number dramatically over the past two decades. Many are physician owned, some are jointly developed...Read More »
To engage in credentialing by proxy for telemedicine practitioners, originating-site hospitals/critical access hospitals must explicitly recognize the option in their medical staff governing documents (e.g., bylaws and/or policy). This resource provides sample language to get you started.
