Organizing medical staff members into specialty-based departments may make sense for large organizations. But for smaller hospitals, service lines built around a shared purpose--pediatric care or surgery, for example--can engender interdisciplinary collaboration, positive outcomes, and patient...
"When I talk about PSOs what seems to resonate are the peer review protections. And what I say is, look, this is not a mafia regime coming to the neighborhood to offer you protection," says Matthew Womble, executive director, Emergency Medical Error Reduction Group, a PSO based...
The amount of revenue physicians generate for their hospitals is on the rise, according to data from a Merritt Hawkins survey of hospital chief financial officers. On average, a physician generated $1.5 million for his or her affiliated hospital, up from the $1.4 million reported in the 2013...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 14
Nearly all specialties that were represented in Medscape’s 2016 Physician Compensation Report noted a pay increase from the previous year. Rheumatology and internal medicine reported the largest pay increase (12%), while general surgery, anesthesiology, and HIV/ID reported only a 1% increase.
The Illinois Supreme Court (the "Court") recently upheld an appellate court's decision that two hospitals had to turn over a physician's staff privilege applications to the plaintiffs suing for negligent credentialing because the documents are not privileged under the Health Care Professional...
Concurrent or overlapping surgery is not new; however, there are relatively few regulations or policy statements from regulatory agencies or professional bodies that specifically address this issue, other than those from CMS concerning reimbursement. Because of this lack of guidance, healthcare...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 4
Clinician shortages are gaining ground across the country, adding new urgency to a long-standing pursuit in the medical staff services department (MSSD): striking the ideal balance between quality and efficiency.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 13
With the threat posed by stress and burnout to physicians’ well-being and clinical performance, hospital leaders must cultivate physician resilience. Recently at Huron Healthcare’s 2016 CEO Forum, Wayne Sotile, PhD, founder of the Center for Physician Resilience, made the following...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 12
Due to possible health risks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently proposed a ban on most powdered medical gloves. According to the FDA, the powdered gloves “pose an unreasonable and substantial risk of illness or injury.”
