MSPs’ role in fair hearings can prevent further lawsuits
Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, September 1, 2009
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During a fair hearing, it is the physician’s responsibility to prove why the medical staff’s decisions and actions were unfair. “The onus is on them to find fault with the process, but that becomes very hard to do if you follow your processes strictly,” says Carole La Pine, MSA, CPMSM, CPCS, manager for physician services at Trinity Health in Novi, MI.
MSPs are often the first line of defense, ensuring that the medical staff follows its processes to the letter, and their involvement with a fair hearing starts as soon as an adverse decision is made against a practitioner, says Terry Wilson, CPMSM, CPCS, director of medical staff services at Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, FL.
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