The medical staff office’s daily operations touch many other areas of the organization to ensure patient safety and regulatory compliance. Here's a visual representation of the medical staff office's place in the system.
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...
For healthcare organizations that enter into credentialing by proxy arrangements, one of the most needling and long-standing pain points is allying intention and execution. Before enlisting telemedicine practitioners, hospitals should ensure that they have the necessary provisions in their...
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...
A key part to any credentialing application is the attestation, acknowledgment, and release forms. These documents protect your organization as well...
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...
Once driven exclusively by insurance carriers, provider enrollment features ever-more prominently in healthcare institutions’ service portfolios and under MSPs’ purviews. Of the nearly 1,000 respondents to the...
A structured, formal education process is the best way to ensure that every medical staff leader has at least basic understanding of the requirements and skills necessary to become an effective leader. A very basic first step is the creation of a job description for the position. This not only...
