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- Ask the expert: Does the medical staff need to credential nurses or physicians who conduct clinical trial studies that only involve chart reviews?
The short answer is no; individuals collecting data for clinical trials that involve only chart review do not need to be credentialed by the medical staff services department, nor do they need privileges because they are not interacting with patients, explains Kathy Matzka, CPMSM, CPCS, a medical staff consultant in Lebanon, IL.
- News and briefs: CIHQ applies for CMS deeming status
The Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) recently applied to CMS for deeming authority of its acute care hospital accreditation program.
- News and briefs: Six years later, plastic surgeon disciplined
The Maryland Board of Physicians revoked Dr. Oscar Ramirez’s medical license this week, six years after he performed two “lengthy surgeries in an outpatient setting without adequate resources,” according to the Baltimore ABC affiliate, ABC2.
- Featured blog post: Holy Moly, He Wants to Come Back!
At some point during their tenure, physician leaders will be faced with the tough decision of whether to let an impaired or disruptive physician back on the medical staff. What can they do? Where should they start? R. Dean White, DDS, MS, featured Credentialing Resource Center Symposium speaker, discusses ways to create a physician re-entry process in this week’s blog post.
- Featured webcast: Assessing the competence of low- and no-volume practitioners
Create strategic solutions to privileging low- and no-volume practitioners with advice from two leading medical staff and credentialing experts. In this online program, Yisrael M. Safeek, MD, MBA, CPE, FACPE, an experienced physician leader and former Joint Commission surveyor, and Sally Pelletier CPMSM, CPS, a national credentialing and privileging expert, walk medical staff leaders and medical services professionals through steps to develop a working strategy to establish competency for low- and no-volume practitioners.
- Ask the expert: When does it make sense to use perception data instead of clinical data?
Perception data differ from clinical data in that they are based on how others view a practitioner’s performance in relatively subjective areas.
Credentialing & Privileging Blog
Medical services professionals, credentialers, and medical staff leaders hear from Credentialing Resource Center experts in the trenches on credentialing and privileging.
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Holy Moly, He Wants to Come Back!
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Patient Satisfaction Blog Series for CRC 2012
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Solving the low- and no-volume issue
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Free Form Friday: Sample code of conduct policy
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Core Privileges for Physicians
Ensure that your facility has the best, most up-to-date privileging system available.
This comprehensive resource combines a how-to manual with downloadable forms to help you develop and implement the most efficient and consistent privileging system available—the core privileging approach. It includes 77 customizable physician specialty and subspecialty core privileging forms, along with applicable corresponding procedure lists, that are the culmination of Credentialing Resource Center White Paper research and Greeley Company expertise.