Credentialing & Privileging

Credentialing & Privileging Articles by Topic: Physician Competency

How to navigate National Practitioner Data Bank reports effectively: Legal experts offer tips for medical staffs and practitioners

  • Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 11, November 1, 2009

    Nothing grabs a credentials committee’s attention like a National Practitioner Data Bank...

Credentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider, November 2009

  • 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...

Ask the expert: How did the new specialty certification for child abuse pediatrics evolve?

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 43, October 29, 2009

    Have you ever wondered exactly how specialty boards develop new certifications? The evolution...

Editor's pick: FPPE and OPPE are privilege-specific

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 42, October 22, 2009

    FPPE and OPPE requirements raise the bar for anyone involved in privileging. The Joint Commission...

Physician with long history of misconduct finally caught by authorities

  • 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...

Poll question: What new Clinical Privilege White Papers do you need?

  • 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...

Editor’s pick: What’s your credentialing software missing?

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 41, October 15, 2009

    If your medical staff office’s existing credentialing software helps you create and generate...

Stand firm on clinical competency criteria

  • Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 10, October 1, 2009

    Establishing criteria for current clinical competency for physicians is the medical staff’s...

Editor’s pick: Credentialing Resource Center Symposium Speaker Application

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 39, October 1, 2009

    Calling all medical staff professionals and medical staff leaders: Have you mastered your...

Featured blog post: The aging physician: Balancing safety, respect, and dignity

  • 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...

Editor's pick: Credentialing Resource Center Symposium Speaker Application

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 38, September 24, 2009

    Calling all medical staff professionals and medical staff leaders: Have you mastered your...

State medical board will hear unprofessional charges against OB-GYN

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 38, September 24, 2009

    Some state medical boards keep their practitioner investigations confidential, and the public only...

The debate continues: Nurses who reported physician to the Texas Medical Board file federal appeal

  • 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...

Georgetown University sued over defamatory NPDB entry

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 35, September 3, 2009

    Carlos F. Gomez, MD brought charges against Georgetown University because of its National...

Featured blog post: Clinical Privilege White Papers poll

  • 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...

Tip of the week: Present reappointment applicant’s quality file to department chief for review

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 32, August 13, 2009

    MSPs should present the practitioner’s updated quality file to the department chief at the...

MA Supreme Court rules state medical board can access peer review information

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 32, August 13, 2009

    The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine can access confidential peer review information...

Ask the expert: Does DNV approve core privileging?

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 31, August 6, 2009

    Yes. Core privileges are specifically mentioned as an appropriate privileging option in the...

Malpractice trial focuses on physician with temporary privileges

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 31, August 6, 2009

    The malpractice trial began yesterday for John Christian Gunn, MD whose patient Herberta...

CP+ demonstration

  • 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...

Questions about Low-Volume/No-Volume Practitioners?

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 28, July 16, 2009

    Credentialing Resource Center subscribers can access a new special report, Low-Volume/No-Volume...

Tip of the week: Affiliation letter safeguards allow you to disclose more information

  • 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...

Poll results: Has your department reported a practitioner to the NPDB?

  • 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...

Editor's pick: What's your credentialing software missing?

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 22, June 4, 2009

    If your medical staff office’s existing credentialing software helps you create and generate...

Featured blog post: Hospitals not reporting to NPDB, study claims

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 21, May 28, 2009

    Hospitals are not reporting practitioners to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) as often as...

Tip of the week: FPPE is privilege-specific

  • 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...

Featured blog post: CRC Symposium photo slideshow

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 20, May 21, 2009

    Our 12th annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium may be finished, but the lessons learned...

Featured blog post: How are you spending your CRC Symposium downtime?

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 19, May 8, 2009

    This week’s poll question is a Credentialing Resource Center Symposium exclusive. We want to...

Avoid negligence lawsuits involving low-volume practitioners

  • Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 5, May 1, 2009

    The growing low- and no-volume practitioner trend presents challenges for credentialing...

Poll results: Work gap verifications

  • 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...

Privilege suspension, arrest for anesthesiologist accused of steroid trafficking

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 16, April 23, 2009

    A Tulsa, OK anesthesiologist was arrested last week on complaints of possession of anabolic...

Featured blog post: Take our work gap verifications poll

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 16, April 23, 2009

    Most organizations require practitioners to provide a written statement explaining gaps in work...

CP+ Webex demonstration 4/21

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 14, April 9, 2009

    Many medical staff services departments are challenged to redesign clinical privileges in all...

Editor’s pick: Win free registration to the upcoming CRC Symposium

  • 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...

Retired physician re-entering the medical staff

  • 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...

Most state medical boards don’t track inactive physicians, according to new study

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 9, February 26, 2009

    The majority of state medical boards allow physicians to renew their licenses independent of their...

Tip of the week: Best sources for verifying nursing home affiliations

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 9, February 26, 2009

    Many practitioners have longstanding affiliations with nursing homes, but nursing homes rarely have...

What’s the best way to rollout new privileges?

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 9, February 26, 2009

    In this week’s column, Maureen Coler, Executive Editor, identifies three main ways hospitals...

Ask the expert: How can I define professionalism in medical staff policies?

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 6, February 5, 2009

    The following is a good definition of professionalism: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate...

There's a time and place for expedited credentialing

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 6, February 5, 2009

    In this week’s column, Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS outlines the Joint Commission’s...

Tip of the week: Create a group to evaluate, streamline competency reports

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 5, January 29, 2009

    When considering a change to the format of your physician competency feedback report, assemble a...

Recent court rulings

  • 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...

Tip of the week: An easy equation for measuring competency

  • Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 43, November 13, 2008

    Developing competency measurements—either for a new practitioner or during...

Focused Professional Practice Evaluations - Update

  • 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...

Credentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider October 2008

  • Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 10, October 1, 2008

    Inside: Effective leadership training prevents lawsuits, ensures regulatory compliance Improve...

Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations - Update

  • 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...

Editor's Pick: Free Core Privileging Plus demo at NAMSS conference

  • 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...

Court affirms hospital arbitrarily denied physician's privileges

  • Credentialing & Verification Update, Issue 22, September 8, 2008

    A California appeals court affirmed a trial court's ruling that a hospital unfairly terminated a...