Virtual meetings are a benefit to healthcare organizations with multiple locations. However, this solution also comes with challenges, according to Amy Niehaus, CPMSM, CPCS, consultant for The Greeley Company. For example, it is difficult to read someone’s body language or to...
There is very little direct measurement of the direct effect of peer review on the quality of care delivered, according to Mark Smith, MD, of HG Healthcare Consultants LLC. Smith spoke to the effectiveness of the current peer review system most hospitals have in place during the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) quietly updated its guidelines last spring. In the 90-minute webcast, FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook, expert Todd Sagin, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
HCPro is working on a book about how the medical staff applies its regular processes to employed physicians. The Medical Staff’s Guide to Employed Physicians will cover best practices for onboarding, credentialing, peer review, corrective action, and other issues that may have to be...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 39, Issue 16
As more physicians admit to being stressed or burned out, it is becoming increasingly important for healthcare organizations to focus on how to help physicians deal with these issues. The following is a list of items that both individual physicians and organizations can implement to reduce burn...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
Adventist Health System will pay $118 million to settle claims that it overpaid physicians in order to get more referrals. The plaintiffs alleged that Adventist convinced physician practices to join the system by providing inflated base salaries and extravagant bonuses. One physician allegedly...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
Today marks the start of using ICD-10 codes—a long anticipated change in the healthcare community. Physicians will have to use these new diagnostic codes in order to get properly reimbursed from CMS and private payers. Medicare claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, will be...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
"This is not me being a dinosaur and refusing to move into the future. We are so overwhelmed by the administrative burden that we forget to step back and ask, 'Why are we doing this?' "
- Isabel Hoverman, MD, discusses how administrative burdens and costs—including the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
If you are attending the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) conference next week, make sure to stop by booth #114 to visit HCPro. My editorial and marketing colleagues will be there to answer any medical staff/credentialing questions you have as well as show...
Taking minutes can be a challenge. They should not be a verbatim account of routine discussions, but when they are required for hearings, appeals, and certain other situations, such as a fair hearing process, a verbatim transcript may be required.
