Credentialing & Privileging Articles by Topic: Physician Competency
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2011
Healthcare workers would lose their licenses permanently upon conviction of a sex crime or forcible...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2011
The Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR) is seeking to broaden its scope of accreditation and...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2011
Linda Van Winkle, CPMSM, CPCS, manager of medical staff services at Christus St. Patrick Hospital...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 47, December 9, 2010
The American Academy of Family Physicians will develop new CME and performance improvement programs...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 47, December 9, 2010
Prior to granting privileges, organizations evaluate:
Challenges to licensure registration...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 46, December 2, 2010
The prospect of creating effective, efficient credentialing and privileging systems is intimidating...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 12, December 1, 2010
When it comes to impaired physicians, medical staffs often focus on identifying the problem (e.g...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 45, November 18, 2010
It’s not uncommon for practitioners to hold privileges at more than one facility. But can a...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 43, November 4, 2010
Before processing a low- and no-volume practitioner’s request for renewed privileges...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 43, November 4, 2010
This week’s Free Form Friday giveaway is a focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 11, November 1, 2010
Inside:
Probing into concurrent proctoring problems
Strategies to improve your...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 11, November 1, 2010
Physicians are often hesitant to serve as proctors, and who could blame them? Proctoring another...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 42, October 28, 2010
Here’s the agenda of our next Core Privilege Plus software demo on November 2. If you’d...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 39, October 7, 2010
OPPE has two goals. The first is to obtain data for all six of the general competencies. The second...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 10, October 1, 2010
Inside:
Which type of coach do you need for your legal team?
Statewide peer review...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 10, October 1, 2010
Hospitals in rural areas face some formidable peer review obstacles. For starters, rural hospitals...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 38, September 30, 2010
Hospitals are changing the way they do business and collecting more information. In the past, many...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 36, September 16, 2010
How do you decide if a privilege is a core versus a noncore privilege? The more complex, unique...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 36, September 16, 2010
Here’s a good definition of proctoring as it fits today’s medical staffs&rsquo...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 35, September 9, 2010
Note: This week’s Q & A was answered by Cheryl Gross, MA, CAE, director of the Division...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 33, August 19, 2010
Categorization, sometimes referred to as categories or levels of privileges, identifies major...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 33, August 19, 2010
A majority of courts in the United States have recognized expressly that a hospital has a duty to...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 33, August 19, 2010
Does your medical staff services department track how much it costs to credential each individual...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 31, August 12, 2010
Medical staffs should require proctors to complete formal documentation of their activities and...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 31, August 12, 2010
Still working on your application to speak at the 2011 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 31, August 12, 2010
How often do you uncover a medical liability claim in the course of credentialing physicians...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 31, August 5, 2010
Do you have age or age related limits around ED call coverage?
Take the poll on the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 31, August 5, 2010
Although the Supreme Court of Missouri ruled that practitioners from different specialties can...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 29, July 22, 2010
Physicians support the idea of reporting their impaired peers to the appropriate authorities, but...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 27, July 8, 2010
Occasionally, practitioners need additional education in a formal setting in order to meet...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 26, July 1, 2010
The benefits of having a Platinum level subscription to the Credentialing Resource Center include...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2010
If a feedback report shows that a practitioner isn’t meeting performance expectations and the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2010
Last week we asked readers: Has your medical staff ever held a meeting to resolve a privilege...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2010
We want to know if your medical staff ever held a meeting to resolve a privileging dispute. Take...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2010
Looking for more tips on OPPE, employed physician contracts, and ED coverage? Look no further than...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2010
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) implemented three different levels of surgical care that...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2010
Thank you to everyone who helped make our 13th Annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium a...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 18, May 4, 2010
In this week’s column, Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, discusses the scenarios when extended FPPE...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Briefings on Credentialing, May 2010
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
As the physician shortage increases, locum tenens physicians often are the saving grace of...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2010
Last week, we asked readers, “How does your medical staff tend to deal with practitioners...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2010
If the ambulatory care facility (ACF) is affiliated with a hospital or health system network, it...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2010
It can be challenging for medical staffs to address issues that don’t have clear, black and...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2010
Congratulations to Becky J. Peitz RN, CPCS, CPMSM, our April contest winner! Her sample exit...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2010
In this week’s column, Emily Berry, associate editor, reminds MSPs to ask what the medical...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Briefings on Credentialing, April 2010
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2010
The following are helpful vocabulary words to know to ensure your verification requests collect the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2010
If the final recommendation from the board is unfavorable to the applicant, the organization should...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 10, March 18, 2010
We’ve got 6 quick questions to ask you if you’ve got a few seconds to take our survey...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 10, March 11, 2010
Are you feeling lucky? Vegas lucky? Then enter our contest to win free admission to the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 10, March 11, 2010
In this week’s column, Anne R. Buss, CPMSM, CPCS, advises readers how to simplify the OPPE...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2010
Most surgeons who perform robotic-assisted surgeries using the da Vinci™ robotic surgical...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2010
As many organizations continue to struggle with the integrity of physician activity data, I wanted...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2010
Last week’s poll question asked “How confident are you that the NPDB contains up to...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 7, February 18, 2010
In light of Section 1921 updates, a recent newspaper article took a closer look at practitioner...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2010
The American Psychiatric Association released a draft update of its manual used to diagnose and...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2010
CMS standards do not specifically mention board certification. Nor is this criterion included in...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2010
In this week’s column, Anne R. Buss, CPMSM, CPCS, discusses the complexities of FPPE and...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 4, February 4, 2010
Each month, we will give away one free registration to the upcoming Credentialing Resource Center...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 5, February 4, 2010
The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners found Santusht Perera, MD guilty of wrong-site surgery at...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
The latest how-to techniques, and practical working tools to help you credential and conduct peer...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 4, January 27, 2010
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) issued a press release earlier this week about the...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 2, January 22, 2010
MSPs can help alert medical staff leaders to a potential security risk by telling them about a...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 2, January 22, 2010
Although MSPs may not have the largest role to play in a practitioner’s road to recovery...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 3, January 21, 2010
If you’ve helped arrange treatment for a practitioner with substance abuse problems, chances...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 2, January 14, 2010
In this week’s column, Emily Berry, associate editor, revisits the lessons learned in the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2010
Although a recent poll showed most Credentialing Resource Center Connection readers don’t...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2010
Christiana Care Health System's VEST Center is one of the latest medical simulation center to open...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Medical staffs should determine the criteria for APP privileges prior to accepting applications so...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
The latest how-to techniques, and practical working tools to help you credential and conduct peer...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 48, December 17, 2009
There are several types of prospective proctoring. The prospective proctoring for cognitive...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 46, December 3, 2009
Many medical staffs, from hospitals small and large, struggle to implement a solid proctoring...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 46, December 3, 2009
In this week’s column, Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, discusses what happens when a department...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Nothing grabs a credentials committee’s attention like a National Practitioner Data Bank...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
The latest 'how-to' techniques, and practical 'working tools' to help you credential and conduct...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 43, October 29, 2009
Have you ever wondered exactly how specialty boards develop new certifications? The evolution...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 42, October 22, 2009
FPPE and OPPE requirements raise the bar for anyone involved in privileging. The Joint Commission...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 42, October 22, 2009
Despite being fired from three hospitals, Michael Roy Sharpe, MD, was never disciplined by a state...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 42, October 22, 2009
Thanks to those of you who took our poll in August! We have papers underway for the two procedures...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 41, October 15, 2009
If your medical staff office’s existing credentialing software helps you create and generate...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Establishing criteria for current clinical competency for physicians is the medical staff’s...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 39, October 1, 2009
Calling all medical staff professionals and medical staff leaders: Have you mastered your...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 39, October 1, 2009
Our older colleagues deserve to be treated with dignity. The best approach does so while enabling...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 38, September 24, 2009
Calling all medical staff professionals and medical staff leaders: Have you mastered your...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 38, September 24, 2009
Some state medical boards keep their practitioner investigations confidential, and the public only...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 36, September 10, 2009
While the motion to dismiss criminal charges against two nurses who reported a physician to the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 35, September 3, 2009
Carlos F. Gomez, MD brought charges against Georgetown University because of its National...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 34, August 27, 2009
We’re updating several of our Clinical Privilege White Papers and want to hear from you which...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 32, August 13, 2009
MSPs should present the practitioner’s updated quality file to the department chief at the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 32, August 13, 2009
The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine can access confidential peer review information...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 31, August 6, 2009
Yes. Core privileges are specifically mentioned as an appropriate privileging option in the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 31, August 6, 2009
The malpractice trial began yesterday for John Christian Gunn, MD whose patient Herberta...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 30, July 30, 2009
Managing criteria-based privileges is a complex task. Consider a software add-on that will help you...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 28, July 16, 2009
Credentialing Resource Center subscribers can access a new special report, Low-Volume/No-Volume...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 23, June 11, 2009
“If there is a reason why a disclosing party does not want to provide information [in a...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 22, June 4, 2009
Last week, we wrote about a new study that claims that hospitals are not reporting practitioners to...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 22, June 4, 2009
If your medical staff office’s existing credentialing software helps you create and generate...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 21, May 28, 2009
Hospitals are not reporting practitioners to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) as often as...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 21, May 28, 2009
Register for a live free Webex demonstration of Core Privilege Plus on Tuesday, June 9 at 1:00 ET...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 20, May 21, 2009
Our 12th annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium may be finished, but the lessons learned...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 19, May 8, 2009
This week’s poll question is a Credentialing Resource Center Symposium exclusive. We want to...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
The growing low- and no-volume practitioner trend presents challenges for credentialing...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 17, April 30, 2009
The results are in from last week’s poll. We asked readers what work gap length does your...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 16, April 23, 2009
A Tulsa, OK anesthesiologist was arrested last week on complaints of possession of anabolic...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 16, April 23, 2009
Most organizations require practitioners to provide a written statement explaining gaps in work...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 14, April 9, 2009
Many medical staff services departments are challenged to redesign clinical privileges in all...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 14, April 9, 2009
We know budgets are tight. So, in an effort to make this year’s CRC Symposium in Las Vegas...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 12, March 19, 2009
In this week's column, Anne R. Buss, CPMSM, CPCS, explains a curious situation that has...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 9, February 26, 2009
The majority of state medical boards allow physicians to renew their licenses independent of their...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 9, February 26, 2009
Many practitioners have longstanding affiliations with nursing homes, but nursing homes rarely have...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 9, February 26, 2009
In this week’s column, Maureen Coler, Executive Editor, identifies three main ways hospitals...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 6, February 5, 2009
The following is a good definition of professionalism:
Practitioners are expected to demonstrate...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 6, February 5, 2009
In this week’s column, Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS outlines the Joint Commission’s...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 5, January 29, 2009
When considering a change to the format of your physician competency feedback report, assemble a...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
A Georgia appeals court has overturned a lower court’s grant of access to some materials in...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 43, November 13, 2008
Developing competency measurements—either for a new practitioner or during...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 38, October 9, 2008
Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, is the director of medical affairs at Children’s Medical Center of...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
Inside:
Effective leadership training prevents lawsuits, ensures regulatory compliance
Improve...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 36, September 25, 2008
Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, is the director of medical affairs at Children’s Medical Center of...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 35, September 18, 2008
Planning to attend the NAMSS conference on October 13-15 and need to purchase a new or improved...
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Credentialing & Verification Update, Issue 22, September 8, 2008
A California appeals court affirmed a trial court's ruling that a hospital unfairly terminated a...