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...
If certain privileging-related requirements, such as possession of board certification, current licensure, and professional liability coverage, apply to all or the vast majority of medical staff members, consider defining them in the medical staff bylaws as “general qualifications for membership...
The relationship of hospital size, medical staff services department size, and number of credentialed practitioners isn’t a sharp line. MSPs’ roles are fluid.
Well-formed job descriptions foster consistency that counterbalances these uncertainties. MSPs can reference the descriptions to...
In long-term care, as in acute care, industry best practices (and, where applicable, accreditation standards) dictate that a credentialing process occur for all practitioners who deliver a medical level of care. This resource provides a rundown of items a nursing home might collect or verify...
