CMS' revisions present credentialing issues and decisions for hospitals reagrding the process by which therapeutic diets may be ordered. In this article we identify some of the issues that must be considered before hospitals can implement changes to their credentialing process in order to...
As MaineHealth and credentialing partner Synernet get standardized privilege sets ready to go, MSB spoke to Robert E. McArtor, MD, CMO of the eight-hospital system, about some of the keys to the success of this initiative. Among them are consensus, collaboration, and listening...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 11
A difficult recruitment and retention environment—as well as patient, community, and hospital need—provide understandable pressure to quickly get certain practitioners and specialties credentialed and privileged. While CMS is silent regarding the use of temporary privileges or locum...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 11
A conversion to core privileging is underway at MaineHealth, and the effort has spurred a drive to standardize privilege forms among the eight hospitals in the system. Now, a little more than a year into the process, the integrated healthcare delivery network has drafts of forms for three...
The Nevada Supreme Court (the "Court") upheld, in an unpublished opinion, a lower court's dismissal of an anesthesiologist's lawsuit against MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas, because the Hospital has immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA)....
The California Court of Appeals for the Second District, Division 3 (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, upheld the Superior Court of Los Angeles County's decision to strike a physician's lawsuit against a hospital and its medical staff claiming he was denied the right...
