When CMS announced new finalized regulations in May, most of the coverage focused on the updates to the Conditions of Participation (CoP) regarding the amendment that allowed unified and integrated medical staffs for multihospital systems and member hospitals (Governing Body CoP...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 10
Deborah Sutherland, PhD, CEO of the University of South Florida Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS), says physician simulation training may be the (near) future of privileging, competence assessment, and much more?both in hospitals and at the specialty board and state...
This is the second of two columns investigating the issues surrounding credentialing and policies for autopsies. In Part 1, Patricia A. Furci, RN, MA, Esq., and Samuel J. Furci, MPA, provided some background and the reasons this procedure should not be considered...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 10
When hospitals acquire practices and clinics, the medical staff services department (MSSD) faces credentialing and privileging questions. Will physicians in newly acquired clinics be considered members of the hospital medical staff? Will they be credentialed by the hospital's medical...
The North Carolina Court of Appeals (the “Court”), in an unpublished opinion, reversed a county Superior Court order for a hospital to produce peer review information. The Court ruled in a matter related to an orthopedic surgeon’s lawsuit alleging unfair and deceptive trade...
When CMS announced new finalized regulations in May, most of the coverage focused on the updates to the Conditions of Participation (CoP) regarding the amendment that allowed unified and integrated medical staffs for multihospital systems and member hospitals (Governing...
