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- Featured blog post: Physicians will report impaired peers, in theory
Physicians support the idea of reporting their impaired peers to the appropriate authorities, but they won’t always report when faced with those situations in real life, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Approximately 1,900 physicians participated in the study, “Physicians’ Perceptions, Preparedness for Reporting, and Experiences Related to Impaired and Incompetent Colleagues.”
- Government reviews criteria for Health Professional Shortage Area distinction
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will form a committee to review and update the criteria for Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) distinction,according to a July 21 press release. Medical staffs in a HPSA are eligible to receive government assistance for recruiting practitioners. For example, they can recruit practitioners from the National Health Service Corps.
HHS aims to finalize the meeting schedule for the 28-member committee by July 2011.
- Reminder: Apply to speak at the 2011 CRC Symposium
Still working on your application to speak at the 2011 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium? Don’t forget to send it in by August 16th!
Click here to read more about the Symposium and download the short application. - Credentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider August 2010
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- Avoid conflicts and eliminate bias by engaging an outside peer review firm
- Legal pitfalls to avoid when working with telemedicine
- Recent Court Rulings
- Avoid conflicts and eliminate bias by engaging an outside peer review firm
Between mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, exclusive contracts, and physician-owned hospitals and clinics, it’s no wonder physicians find themselves knee deep in conflicts of interest. Unfortunately for medical staffs, these conflicts can hamper peer review efforts.
“Doctors are either colleagues or competitors,” says Skip Freedman, MD, executive medical director of AllMed Healthcare Management, a peer review services firm in Portland, OR. “There is so much conflict of interest that it is impossible for most medical staffs to do internal peer review in a meaningful, non-judgmental way.”
If your medical staff is riddled with conflicts of interest like Freedman describes, best practice is to turn over at least a portion of your peer review process to an external firm that can provide objective reviews.
- Setting concise goals in the medical staff services department
In this week’s column, Anne Buss, CPMSM, CPCS, offers readers her take on setting goals for the MSSD to improve work flow.
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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Assessing the Competency of Low-Volume Practitioners
The Joint Commission requires that hospitals verify physician competence using performance data. Yet organizations often have little or no data related to the competency of low- and no-volume physicians.
This fully updated book and CD-ROM set offers the necessary tools and strategies for medical staff leaders and professionals to manage the increasing number of low- and no-volume providers and comply with Joint Commission standards.