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Tip of the week: Ensure the credentials committee owns the annual credentialing report

Credentialing & Verification Update, February 25, 2009

The annual credentialing report (the overview of a facility’s current credentialing process provided for the hospital’s board, risk managers, in-house counsel, and others) should not be owned by the medical staff office or credentialing department; rather, it should come from the credentials committee or other group charged with the responsibility of overseeing credentialing. It is acknowledged that the medical staff office or credentialing department will do most of the preparatory work on the annual report, but the report itself should be viewed as “belonging” to the credentials committee for it to have maximum impact.

The previous text is an excerpt from the HCPro, Inc., book Credentialing Audits: Tools for Compliance and Reduced Liability, by Vicki Searcy, CPMSM.

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