Tip of the week: Put H&P requirement language in your medical staff bylaws
Medical Staff Leader Insider, March 3, 2009
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Standard MS.01.01.01 (formerly MS.1.20) element of performance 20 now requires that medical staffs include requirements for completing and documenting history and physical examinations (H&P) in the medical staff bylaws. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Conditions of Participation 482.22(c) (5) have always required that the medical staff bylaws contain this language. However, medical staffs have traditionally placed H&P requirement language in their rules and regulations.
To be compliant, the easiest thing to do is to copy your present H&P requirement language from the rules and regulations into the section of your medical staff bylaws that outlines credentialing and privileging policies and procedures because conducting H&Ps is considered a privilege.
Joseph Cooper, MD
Consultant
The Greeley Company
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