The most common rule indicators are going to be your core measures where the physician is responsible for something. Rule indicators are an event, and we are looking at how well they were complied with, and when they are not, you want to respond quickly to the practitioner to let them know they...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 2
Medical staff services and credentialing professionals do business with customers who want to be heard and who require expeditious action and follow-through. Professionals in our field have much to consider in their day-to-day work—regulatory compliance, adherence to medical staff bylaws,...
With the new year comes new practice authority for many advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) working in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system. Certified nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse midwives now have full practice authority “when acting...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 2
With physician employment on the rise, advanced practice professionals (APP) gaining clinical and political ground, and the trend toward team-based care shaping peer review, today’s medical staffs are more diverse and...
Christopher Duntsch, MD, a former neurosurgeon convicted of a first degree felony for harming an elderly patient he operated on, will spend the rest of his life in prison. A jury returned the verdict Monday following two weeks of testimony for the sentencing phase of Duntsch’s trial that...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 2
The Appellate Court of Illinois for the First District (the “Court”) affirmed a circuit court’s judgment that documents produced by Loyola University Medical Center’s Medical Care Evaluation and Analysis Committee (MCEAC), which conducts peer reviews of hospital deaths to reduce morbidity and...
