With the rise of healthcare services outside traditional hospital settings, outpatient practitioner credentialing and peer review are challenging medical staff services departments nationwide. We spoke with 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium presenter Todd Sagin, MD, JD,...
Proctors may not know what information they need to collect or report. To help proctors succeed, give them a standardized form to complete when observing another physician. Today’s free resource is a summary focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) monitoring form. This form is completed...
Proctoring as a competency assessment tool has had new life breathed into it by The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services insistence that practitioners demonstrate their current competence to hold privileges in accredited hospitals. No longer can physicians be deemed qualified...
Care New England Health System is taking a systemwide approach to FPPE policies and forms. It’s a work in progress, but some elements are already in place, says Anne Marie Dion, CPMSM, director of medical staff services at Kent Hospital, in Warwick, Rhode Island, part of the...
Granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without fully verifying their credentials verification can put healthcare organizations and their patients in danger—clinically and legally. Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, advisory consultant and the chief...
Sick of the cold winter weather? Treat yourself to a trip to warm, sunny Orlando when you attend the 2016 Credentialing Resource Center. This year’s symposium will be held April 7-8 at the Hyatt Regency Orlando. Located within minutes of several attractions, you can spend your off time with...
