Melissa Brenner, medical staff and provider enrollment manager for Adena Health System, discusses how the organization was able to use the tools of Six Sigma to strengthen and streamline its provider onboarding process.
Legal cases have significantly affected how health plans operate with regard to their credentialing practices. There are several ways in which managed care organizations can be held liable for their actions or for the actions of their providers related to the care received by members.
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Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 10
Once driven exclusively by insurance carriers, provider enrollment features ever-more prominently in healthcare institutions’ service portfolios and under MSPs’ purviews. Of the nearly 1,000 respondents to the 2017 MSP Salary Survey, 22.3% work in departments that carry out both medical staff...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 10
Beyond the functional similarities, provider enrollment and medical staff services also share unlikely career trajectories and challenges, as demonstrated by the write-in responses to the 2017 MSP Salary Survey highlighted in the following sections.
The healthcare industry continues to evolve, and many healthcare systems and hospitals are seeking opportunities to become more fully integrated and to achieve greater efficiencies among their various facilities, departments, and functions.
