When credentialing and privileging employed physicians, it is a best practice to have a single, unified process. This will ensure that every candidate has been fully vetted through the same prescribed process. This free resource from ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires medical staff bylaws address who can perform the history and physical examination and in what time frame the history and physical exam must be completed. This free resource is sample bylaws addressing the completion of history and...
According to a 2016 report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States could experience a shortage of 61,700–94,700 physicians by 2025. As the physician pool dwindles, and technology rapidly advances, more and more medical staffs will turn to telemedicine solutions to...
All hospitals should have policies regarding conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest policy goes a long way toward eliminating the possibility of undisclosed conflicts. This conflict of interest policy delineates the expectation of disclosure of conflict of interest and how to resolve the...
It's important for MSPs to have professional goals and performance data that speak to their progress in achieving them. Evidence-based leadership evaluation tools, such as report cards and 90-day action plans, can help MSPs prioritize individual and departmentwide initiatives. Select one project...
In Monday’s edition of CRC Daily we discussed expanding the scope of practice of advanced practice professionals (APP). If your state has expanded the scope of an APP, it may be prudent to send notifications out to your APPs. In such a notification, you may reiterate that until policies...
When a professional dispute arises, the last thing you want to discover is an ill-defined (or nonexistent) path toward resolution. Having a clear policy in place that identifies who will lead dispute resolution and what specific steps must be taken removes a lot of uncertainty from the equation...
Modern medical staff services departments are increasingly turning to technologies that allow MSPs and other credentialing stakeholders across the organization to go paperless; house large volumes of quality data in a centralized, searchable, and secure location; facilitate virtual committee...
FPPE is a process that requires a formal improvement plan with some form of monitoring to determine whether the improvement has been achieved. Whether an FPPE is initiated based on case review decisions by a peer review committee or evaluations of OPPE reports, having a defined format for the...
There are many reasons why physicians and medical staff members take leave of absences. Whatever the reason, it’s important to have a policy in place to address reappointment following a leave of absence. Today’s free resource is an outline on how to create a leave of absence policy. It was...
