Ask the expert: Where is Joint Commission standard MS.01.01.01 EP 20?
Medical Staff Leader Connection, March 10, 2009
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Medical Staff Leader Connection!
In last week’s “Tip of the week,” Joseph Cooper, MD, a consultant with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. in Marblehead, MA, recommended that medical staffs remove their history and physical examination (H&P) requirements language from the rules and regulations and place them in the bylaws to comply with Joint Commission standard MS.01.01.01 EP 20. Several readers responded wondering where they could locate EP 20.
The Joint Commission updated its standards and EPs in January to comply with CMS language, and these updates include the addition of MS.01.01.01 EPs 20 and 21. Check out “Joint Commission updates standards to comply with CMS regulations” in the March issue of Medical Staff Briefing to learn more.
MS.01.01.01 EP 20 states that the medical staff bylaws should include the requirements for completing and documenting medical H&Ps and that H&Ps are completed and documented by a physician, an oromaxillofacial surgeon, or other qualified licensed individual.
Visit the Joint Commission’s Web site to download the updates.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Medical Staff Leader Connection!
Related Products
-
Briefings on The Joint Commission
Briefings on The Joint Commission will help you with all of your accreditation and survey preparation needs. Every month...
-
Hospital Safety Center
Improve compliance with hospital safety standards from The Joint Commission, OSHA, and other regulators with this...
-
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance
Learn Life Safety Code tips and interpretations for healthcare facilities with this in-depth monthly resource.
-
Medical Staff Briefing
This monthly resource acts as a support system by providing time-saving tools, expert advice, and analyses to help you...
-
The Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission Medical Staff Standards
Now in its sixth edition, this book features completely updated information, tools, and insights that will help guide you in...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- HIPAA Q&A: Flu shot requirement for hospital employees
- HealthDataInsights posts new issues for medical necessity claims
- Running an effective peer review committee meeting
- Q&A: Incidental disclosures and patient privacy
- Sneak Peek: Effort underway to establish caseload benchmarks
- New FAQ posted on storing laryngoscope blades
- Tip: Perform your own internal investigation prior to government audit
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- HIPAA 5010 deadline extended, but threat remains, says AMA
- HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages
- E-mailed
-
- Running an effective peer review committee meeting
- HIPAA Q&A: Flu shot requirement for hospital employees
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Tip: Correctly code bilateral pain management procedures
- 2012 CPT code changes for ASCs: Shoulder and knee scopes and pain management
- COT basics to best
- Documentation and coding for toxic metabolic encephalopathy
- Guidance and tact key to compliant, effective physician queries
- Searched