How is your medical staff broken down? Does your organization have a multitude of departments? Are you limited to medical and surgical departments only, with smaller breakdowns within those departments? Or do you have something in between?
A tangled web is created by inappropriately intertwining stand-alone factors. Physician leaders must understand the difference between the following elements or risk unnecessary confusion:
One of the most common myths regarding medical staff governance is that only active staff can vote. The reality is there is no restriction as to who can vote: not from the CMS Conditions of Participation (CoP), not from The Joint Commission, not from any other national regulatory or...
A coalition of hospital groups last week urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw a proposal that they said would prevent multihospital systems from integrating their medical staff. The...
A final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has merged the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank and National Practitioner Data Bank, in a move to eliminate duplication of data.
Over time, many medical staff governance decisions have become commonplace and traditional. Although not required by any regulatory agency or accreditation body, these decisions have become de facto truths for many medical staffs around the country. While options exist in many cases, medical...
