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...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
The following questions and answers are from the recent HCPro webcast, "FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How to Address New Reporting Challenges," presented by Todd Sagin, MD, JD, national director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting, LLC, and HG Consultants, LLC.
Last spring the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) updated its guidelines for the first time in more than 10 years. The following questions and answers are from the recent HCPro webcast, FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How to Address New Reporting Challenges, presented by...
