The Supreme Court of Texas (the "Court") recently held that a trial court failed to adequately review allegedly privileged documents?to determine if they were disclosable pursuant to an exception to the state's peer review statute--before issuing an order compelling Christus Santa Rosa Health...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 8
With negligent credentialing suits on the rise, MSPs and medical staff leaders must implement approaches that help cultivate a high-caliber medical staff, promote patient safety, and diminish legal risk. But given the widening array of staffing models and technological advances at play in today'...
It's impossible to calculate the amount of healthcare fraud that exists, as much of it slips under the radar. However, healthcare fraud poses a serious problem, putting the health and welfare of beneficiaries at risk while costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
Once upon a time, key medical staff leadership positions (officers, department chairs, credentials chair, peer review chair) were viewed as important voluntary positions to help the medical staff carry out its board designated responsibility to ensure the care provided primarily by individuals...
We continue to see the roles of nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) evolve with expanding opportunities in a multitude of medical specialties. According to the Practicing Clinicians Exchange, there are approximately 205,000 NPs and 104,000 PAs in the United States.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 6
Negligent credentialing cases have picked up steam in recent years, but for the medical staff office, litigation poses less of a threat than shepherding practitioners through the application process against MSPs' better judgment.
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas (the "Court") granted a petition for writ of mandamus, requiring the trial court to vacate its order requiring a hospital to produce documents it contended were protected from discovery by the Texas medical peer review committee and medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 5
Last month, Rosemary Dragon, CPMSM, CPCS, medical staff coordinator of OrthoColorado Hospital/St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, shared strategies for fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in new practitioner orientation. This month, she's back with advice on tackling practical...
About a year ago, I ran into a well-known physician quality leader at a national meeting. As we discussed various aspects of physician performance evaluation, he made a somewhat broad statement that sounded reasonable but felt unsettling. His view was that, since healthcare quality was really...
