Ask the expert: What can I do to increase awareness surrounding understaffing and the medical staff office?
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, April 10, 2008
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Credentialing Resource Center Connection!
Remain organized and professional in your approach as you substantiate the need for additional resources. Identify an ally in the medical staff leadership who understands the workload and backs your requests. Remind leadership of the cost of one negligent credentialing settlement versus additional staff and resources.
Conduct a time analysis of the office’s activities to show how many full-time employees are needed to accomplish the responsibilities of the medical staff office, and present the findings to the administration as well as the leadership of the medical staff. Be sure to include all the responsibilities you are asked to perform on a day-to-day basis (including those walk-in interruptions and phone calls!)
This week’s answer is from Ready, Set, Credential! Questions, Games, and Other Strategies to Train Your Staff by Nancy C. Lian, CPMSM, CPCS.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Credentialing Resource Center Connection!
Comments
0 comments on “Ask the expert: What can I do to increase awareness surrounding understaffing and the medical staff office? ”
Related Products
-
Credentialing Resource Center
CRC is now available online! Receive updates up to four days earlier than the print version and save on shipping costs.
-
Credentialing Resource Center Connection
National credentialing and privileging expert Sally J. Pelletier, CPCS, CPMSM, delivers useful and timely information in her...
-
Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider
The Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider provides the latest 'how-to' techniques, and practical 'working tools' to...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Identify potential Medicaid RAC target areas
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- E-mailed
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Q&A: Follow CMS' coding guidelines when using modifier -25
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- CMS has reformulated payments for some bilateral procedures
- New conflicts of interest create new challenges
- Q/A. One injection code or two?
- ED-to-inpatient transfers are flawed with safety gaps
- Searched