Hospitals often are approached with opportunities to align with physicians, and the hospital often decides it desires an alignment relationship and initiates the “ask.” How does an organization decide how to say yes, and how do they decide to pass and say no thanks?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Congratulations to our May contest winner, Iracema Navarro, medical staff coordinator at Promise Hospital, San Diego! This sample policy of the physician report card won Iracema and a colleague free...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Before processing a low- or no-volume practitioner’s request for renewed privileges, hospital and medical staff leaders should engage the practitioner in a collegial conversation to determine whether he or she is still interested in privileges that authorize him or her to treat patients on an...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Hospital employers and physician employees must first decide whether the base salary and benefits will constitute the total compensation that the employer offers. If the employer decides not to offer additional incentive compensation, it still should articulate and measure performance...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPMSM, CPCS, director of Scripps Centralized Credentialing, sent in a medical staff professional orientation plan. Maggie says, “The challenge to even find a qualified medical staff professional is compounded if you bring in a new team member and don’t have a training...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 20
If organizations merely address legalities in their contracts with physicians and fail to define expectations, they almost guarantee that the physician employment contract is only worth the paper that it is written on.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 20
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
