In states where advanced practice professionals (APP) must practice under a physician’s tutelage, a collaborative or supervisory agreement may be required to delineate the nature of this relationship.
The specific contents and implicated parties of such agreements vary by state,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 7
Finding that documents gathered, used, and generated during a hospital’s root cause analysis (RCA) process were privileged from disclosure, the Appellate Court of Illinois for the First District (the “Court”) reversed a Circuit Court of Cook County’s decision ordering the hospital to produce the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 6
The Court of Appeal for the Second District of California (the “Court”) affirmed a Superior Court of Los Angeles County decision to dismiss a physician’s suit against a hospital for summarily suspending his medical staff privileges pending a peer review.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 4
The Kentucky Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a circuit court’s judgment that peer review documents, produced by Saints Mary & Elizabeth Hospital (SMEH) in Louisville, were not admissible at trial in a negligence case brought by the estate of a former patient.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 3
How do you make OPPE and FPPE more than just an item on the regulatory compliance checklist? Although it has been 10 years since The Joint Commission released its ongoing and focused professional practice evaluation standards, organizations are still struggling to develop meaningful processes...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 1
There may be times when a hospital knows it’s not going to get a physician’s reappointment application processed before his or her privileges expire. This could be for any number of reasons, such as the physician just never got around to completing the application or the person in the medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 10
CMS' promulgation of credentialing by proxy in 2011 injected much-needed flexibility, practicality, and robustness into vetting for telemedicine services‑a process that can turn hairy when recruiting multiple remote practitioners with countless affiliations.
