“At some point in almost every physician’s career, we had a powerful desire to help others. When suffering burnout, many of us become so disillusioned by our failure to achieve these aspirations that our passion is replaced by a strong contempt, bordering on hatred, for the profession we chose...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 35
If you missed (or can’t wait to go again) our 2015 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium in Las Vegas, mark your calendar now for the 2016 event, to be held April 7-8, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. Join us for two days of valuable education and training, taught by leading...
What are the boards of healthcare organizations hearing about their role? No matter which conferences you attend or healthcare news you read, there are two major themes:
1. The board is accountable for quality of care, not just finance
Today's free resource is a sample form for creating an FPPE plan from Beebe Healthcare, a community hospital in Lewes, Delaware. Beebe’s policy allows concurrent OPPE and FPPE when an applicant is coming out of a residency program or another hospital with credentials that indicate he or she is...
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) quietly updated its guidelines last spring, and the changes have left many medical staff services departments wondering what—if anything—they must do differently. If your medical staff has questions, tune in to "FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How...
Peer review can be as simple or as complex a process as the organization makes it. But it is a process, and like any other process, it should be clearly delineated in a policy that is objective and applied equally. If emotions can run high concerning the proctoring of a physician's privileges,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 34
Police have arrested a Staten Island man on charges that he posed as a clinical psychologist and treated more than 100 patients over the course of three years. Donald R. Lee-Edwards faces several charges, including criminal sale of controlled substances, identity theft, and criminal...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 34
A new AMA report examined how non-solo physicians were being paid and found that just over half received compensation by multiple methods. Of those methods, salary and productivity-based payments were the most common with 61% and 53.5% respectively.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 34
"Did it ever occur to some of today’s physicians that many people work awfully hard and complain a lot less than they do about 'burnout' and 'work-life balance'?"
- Karen Sibert, MD, criticizes programs that help physicians manage their work-life balance in a post on...
