This week’s quick tip comes from a Q&A with Melissa Brenner, medical staff and provider enrollment manager for Adena Health System in Chillicothe, Ohio. About five years ago, the system developed a multidisciplinary provider onboarding team that meets on a biweekly basis to help streamline...
Despite the clear competency crossover in medical staff services and provider enrollment, not everyone is taking advantage of the alignment opportunities. Over half of respondents to the 2017 MSP Salary Survey (55.6%) who work on teams that facilitate medical staff services report that, while...
The rise of retail clinics and urgent care centers has led to patients being less reliant on primary care physicians (PCP) for their health needs. According to an analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute, from 2012 to 2016 office visits to PCPs declined 18%.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
The third largest health system in the United States, Providence St. Joseph Health System struggled with an issue common among health systems: how to bring together disparate data and develop one source of truth for provider data.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
How do you transition to a paperless credentialing process that enables document sharing throughout your health system, thus reducing rework, waste, and redundancy? How do you leverage your credentialing database to resolve data needs that are beyond the scope of credentialing to strengthen your...
“Anything that cuts through Medicaid’s tangled web of red tape is good for Texas physicians and good for our patients … The centralized credentialing organization should cut away a big knot of Medicaid hassles.”
