OPPE indicators need to be reviewed on a regular basis. Indicators that have met compliance over time can be removed and new ones need to be added. This week’s free resource is OPPE indicator proposal sheet. Click...
by William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE, chief medical quality officer at Pocono Health System in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The amount of confusion and controversy around the concept of ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) is both surprising and unnecessary. The...
Prospective review, concurrent review (proctoring), or retrospective review are examples of the various ways to conduct a focused review or to evaluate privileged practitioners. The medical staff should work with advanced practice professionals (APP) to define specific quality indicators and to...
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey - Camden (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, granted defendants' motion to dismiss a surgeon's claims of antitrust violations, civil rights violations, and unfair competition.
If you are struggling with challenges around the intersection of employed physicians and the organized medical staff, you are far from being alone. Every day, many organizations have to deal with fundamental questions about basic processes such as credentialing, privileging, proctoring, peer...
