Recently, CMS issued a final rule to revise and clarify certain outdated Conditions of Participation (CoP) and Conditions for Coverage for hospitals, critical access hospitals, and other providers. The final rule expands CMS' definition of the medical staff and addresses medical staff...
Imagine: At some point in the future, MD and DO residency information will come from a single source. Medical license information for multiple states will be accessible through an interstate compact. Nurse practitioners throughout the country will practice to the full extent of their scope...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
Hospital medical staffs, MSPs, and governing bodies should take note of the changes CMS made to its final rule earlier this year, which went into effect in July. These changes will affect hospital medical staffs, although not right away.
CMS elected to modify its proposed prohibition on the use of a unified and integrated medical staff for a multihospital system and its member hospitals, allowing each hospital to voluntarily integrate itself into a larger systemwide medical staff. Experts...
CMS' final rule allowing multihospital systems to have a "unified, integrated" medical staff goes into effect this month. As with other Condition of Participation (CoP) modifications, changes won't happen overnight, and the long-term ramifications for medical staffs aren't clear. Medical...
Trying to get MSPs excited about their role in managing and tracking expirables is like trying to make a trip to the dentist sound like it will be fun. Actually, a trip to the dentist might be more exciting.
