Converting to core privileging is a time-consuming and complex endeavor that is well worth the effort. But how do you convince everyone else? If your experience has been like many physician leaders, mentioning a change to the credentialing/privileging process garners a multitude of reactions....
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 5
It’s a mild April morning. Dr. Smith, an accomplished surgeon, and Bill Loney, an affable—if absent-minded—general surgery practice manager, walk briskly down the halls of St. Elsewhere Medical Center, a far-off, yet somehow familiar, facility where Dr. Smith was recently hired. They pause...
In addition to employment, many organizations utilize a contract to better align and integrate the parties involved. Such contracts can run the gamut from a relatively simple agreement to interpret EKGs, to an exclusive contract with a cardiology group to provide all cardiac services at the...
This week, CRC Daily covers credentialing. Medical science is advancing with startling speed, and with that evolution comes rapid change in both clinical technology and technique. Patients can benefit vastly from such advances, but only if the practitioner utilizing them is competent....