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...
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...
