The credentials committee plays a vital part in medical staff governance. The membership of the credentials committee consists primarily of physicians, and has input into key processes for credentialing, privileging, peer review, and quality. This committee is also charged with making...
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In a recent HCPro survey, nearly a quarter of respondents cited credentialing low-volume practitioners as their biggest priority or area of concern. The main challenge with assessing the competency of low- and no-volume practitioners is getting enough relevant data. Because these
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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 40
A new partnership between the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC), Midland College (MC), and Midland Memorial Hospital (MMH) is aiming to bring more primary care physicians to the area by allowing students to earn osteopathic medicine degrees in just seven years, rather than...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 40
When taking on a new leadership role, making a bad first impression can set a negative tone that can be hard to shake. According to Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD, associate director for the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University Business School, new and veteran managers should avoid...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 40
A vast majority of physician leaders support improving the value of healthcare by increasing quality while lowering costs, according to a survey conducted by the American Association for Physician Leaders (AAPL) and the Navigant Center for Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis. The survey,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 40
“The physicians who are most respected in a community are often not the ones who do the fastest surgery, make the smartest diagnoses or charge the least. The dominant doctors are those that connect to each patient’s emotional flow and needs.”
- James C. Salwitz, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 40
Do you have any best practices or forms/lists/ templates from your organization you’d like to share? HCPro is working on a new book, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Employed Physicians, which will be about how medical staffs apply their regular processes to employed physicians...
The skills that MSPs use every day—in-depth knowledge of regulations, attention to detail, and the ability to follow sketchy paper trails—can help an MSP become an expert witness in credentialing and privileging cases, according Kathy Matzka, CPMSM, CPCS, a healthcare consultant based in Lebanon...
