Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12

Are credentialing and privileging the same?

December 1, 2013

Editor's note: The following excerpt is adapted from the Medical Executive Committee Manual by William F. Mills, MD, MMM, CPE, FACPE, FAAFP, and Mary J. Hoppa, MD, MBA. To order or for more information, visit www.hcmarketplace....

Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12

CMS deficiency information: Is your facility prepared?

December 1, 2013

CMS has posted publicly accessible hospital survey deficiency data on its website, and plans to do so on a regular basis. Hospitals must be prepared to acknowledge CMS deficiencies and answer questions about practitioners and the care they provide. Medical services professionals...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

HIPAA/HITECH: How the changes impact the medical staff services department

December 1, 2013

Although HIPAA has been around since 1996, it's only become a more familiar term in healthcare since the implementation of the Privacy Rule in 2001. The Privacy Rule was designed to specifically address the protection of an individual's personal health information (PHI), including the medical...

Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider - Volume 10, Issue 12

Credentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider, December 2013

December 1, 2013

Navigating the pitfalls of APP credentialing and competency assessments

The expanding role of APPs in healthcare has forced hospitals to find creative ways to appropriately credential and evaluate practitioners

The role

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Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12

Credentialing Resource Center Journal, December 2013

December 1, 2013

Accountable care organizations (ACO) are touted as a way to lower Medicare costs and reward organizations for providing team-based quality patient care. Results have been mixed so far (see sidebar, p. 3), but entities continue to launch or join ACOs for several reasons. For many, it's...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Is your medical staff office driving a Toyota? A look at process, credentialing, and privileging

December 1, 2013

Over many decades, Toyota Motor Corporation developed a Lean production to standardize work and reap the benefit of improved methodologies that impact the quality of a product. The base aims of standardized work are to impact and improve customer satisfaction while eliminating wasted,...

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