Medical scribing has emerged in response to the introduction of the EMR into clinical practice. Medical practices, hospitals, and emergency departments hire scribes to mitigate the inevitable slowdown created by providers who are not adept at typing or navigating computer systems. According to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 31
Starting in October, 2,592 hospitals will receive lower payments for Medicare patients due to penalties for high rates of readmissions, according to Kaiser Health News. The hospitals will lose a combined $420 million through the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, which was created by the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 31
Fifty-five percent of physician leaders believe the Affordable Care Act has more good in it than bad, according to a survey conducted by the American Association for Physician Leadership and the Navigant Center for Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 31
“Charting is bad enough, but I see nothing beneficial from having me sit at the desk and try to make decisions about life, death and disability, all the while trying to figure out how to enter a timed troponin level, even as the next stroke victim rolls through the door.”
- Edwin...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 31
Thank you to everyone who responded to my note in last week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider about the return of house calls. The comments were unanimously in favor of them. Many with experience making house calls commented on how gratifying it was and how...
Today's Quick Tip concerns form letter verifications. This type of verification is still widely used, but many MSPs consider form letters to be a low-yield credentialing tool. However, your form letter procedures can be "optimized" to get the best possible return on your time and...
With dozens (or more!) of applications and reapplications coming through your office, keeping track of what verifications are still needed for which practitioners can be a daunting task. Start with a schedule that shows the steps in the credentialing process, and acceptable time frames for each...
