Credentialing & Privileging Articles by Topic: Allied Health Professionals
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 34, September 2, 2011
Some organizations address the credentialing and privileging of advanced practice professionals...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 33, August 19, 2011
The Joint Commission has indicated that the delineation of clinical privileges need not be so...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 30, July 29, 2011
Administrative personnel sometimes feel compelled to forward an application to department chairs or...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 28, July 15, 2011
Developing or revising your AHP practice policy takes a lot of work and research. Create a...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 23, June 10, 2011
Some organizations have labeled or may consider labeling the group of individuals to be privileged...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 38, September 30, 2010
The following Q&A is from HCPro’s on demand Webcast Advanced Practice Professional...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 33, August 19, 2010
Categorization, sometimes referred to as categories or levels of privileges, identifies major...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 18, May 4, 2010
Legally, this independence level varies from state to state. It is also important to note that just...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 46, December 3, 2009
How should an organization proceed in developing or revising a policy covering advance practice...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 44, November 12, 2009
If you haven’t already heard about it from the nurse practitioners (NP) at your organization...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 37, September 17, 2009
In this week’s column, Anne R. Buss, CPMSM, CPCS, explores how privileging advance practice...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Originally developed for nurse practitioners (NP), all advanced practice RNs—from...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The second article in our “Focus On” series takes a closer look at three types of...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 27, July 9, 2009
There is no National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) requirement to query or report on other...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Physician assistants (PA) take the spotlight this month as we examine why their popularity...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 25, June 25, 2009
A clinical assistant (CA) is an individual qualified by academic education and clinical experience...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 21, May 28, 2009
Last week we asked readers what terms their organizations use to describe nurse practitioners and...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 20, May 21, 2009
Allied health professionals, physician extenders, advanced practice professionals—the list...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 18, May 7, 2009
Patricia Spurlock, assistant director of professional affairs at the American Academy of Physician...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 14, April 9, 2009
In this week's column Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, answers the question: “Can an employed...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 10, March 5, 2009
Advanced practice professionals and clinical assistants, the two categories of allied health...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
As retail clinics sprout across the country at pharmacies and grocery stores, MSPs may be asking...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Medical staff bylaws are the blueprint by which your organization delivers the highest-quality...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
The number of physician assistants (PA) will grow by 27% before 2016, with growth in the number of...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 37, October 2, 2008
Monday kicks off National Physician Assistants (PA) week across the country. This year’s...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 35, September 18, 2008
As specified in its bylaws (according to Joint Commission standard MS.4.45 and MS.4.80), the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Insider, Issue 35, September 11, 2008
There is no National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) requirement to query or report on other...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 9, September 1, 2008
When The Joint Commission implemented standard MS.4.30, which addresses focused professional...