Note from the editor: HCPro's Credentialing Resource Center is constantly adding to and updating its library of Clinical Privilege White Papers, which outline sample privileging criteria and background research for a wide range of medical specialty and subspecialty...
Updates to the NPDB Guidebook are being met with some resistance from legal and regulatory organizations, particularly concerning the way in which the NPDB defines an investigation.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 6
As more organizations examine or pursue PCMH for care delivery, MSPs should take a hard look at NCQA's data collection and reporting guidelines, as well as their organization's own internal requirements and accreditation guidelines.
In this article we'll discuss the evolving role of the NP, and some of the major issues facing those contemplating the new law and their hospital's policy for granting NP autonomy. Since organizations can set a credentialing policy for NPs that is more restrictive than the requirements of state...
The Appellate Court of Illinois Second District (the "Court") affirmed a trial court's decision to dismiss a suit brought by a physician against a hospital to force the hospital to produce information related to its credentialing process after the hospital withdrew an offer of employment to...
Anyone who has worked in the medical field or spent time credentialing physicians has read, heard, or even seen, stories of incompetent doctors that risk the health and often the lives of patients. But the case of Christopher Duntsch may take the cake.
