How do you know whether your medical staff’s age-related credentialing and privileging policy is discriminatory or exhibits favoritism? The answer lies in the origins and details of the policy.
As of July 1, The Joint Commission added antidiscrimination language into the medical staff chapter of the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH). Previous antidiscrimination language was deleted in 2003 because the accrediting organization believed it...
Per the Constitution of the State of Florida, Amendment 7 (the Patient’s Right to Know About Adverse Medical Incidents) gives patients the right “to have access to any records made or received in the course of business by a health care facility or provider relating to any adverse medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 9
As a credentialing professional, how many peer recommendation letters have passed across your desk? Probably countless. You know what the good, the bad, and the ugly looks like. But do your medical staff members and department chairs who write them on a regular basis know? Practitioners who...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 8
Nearly everybody’s got ‘em, and nobody wants ‘em. Privileging disputes seem to rear their ugly head when new procedures are developed, training patterns change, or reimbursement issues draw the medical staff’s attention. However, armed with the proper educational resources and diplomatic actions...
Often, medical staffs throw new credentials committee members in with the sharks and hope that they know how to swim. These members are often left to figure out the details of their position on their own. This learn-as-...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 7
By now, medical staffs know the purpose of focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE): It’s a focused review to evaluate a practitioner’s performance of newly requested privileges or privileges marred by competency concerns. It’s been several years since The Joint Commission rolled out...
When a physician applies to a medical staff, one of the first things that credentialing specialists verify is the physician’s state license. If the license looks clean, the physician must be good, right? Not necessarily.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 6
Today’s credentialing practices extend beyond the traditional hospital realm. Hospital-based MSPs can benefit from learning about other approaches to credentialing, whether it takes place in a medical board setting or in a nonhospital organization. These alternative insights allow MSPs more...
For MSPs, starting a new job means learning a new set of medical staff bylaws and processes, finding the way around a new facility, meeting dozens of medical staff members, and navigating a new social and political atmosphere. If that wasn't harrowing enough, most medical staff...
