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  • Financial Statements for Physician Leaders, Part II: The Balance Sheet

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    The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, and credentialing and privileging. The last week(s) it will cover other important medical staff related topics.

     

    Last month, we covered the statement of operations, or as it is more commonly known, the profit and loss (P and L) or income statement. This month, we will cover the balance sheet. This financial statement demonstrates an organization’s financial position at a specific point in time and presents a “snapshot” using the accounting equation:

                                          Assets = Liabilities + Equity
     

    To read more of this column from Jon Burroughs, senior consultant and director of education services with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., located in Danvers, MA, click here.

  • News and briefs: ABFM enhances Maintenance of Certification process

    The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) recently made changes to its Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) program, including a new entry/re-entry process.

  • 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.  

  • Ask the expert: Should medical staff bylaws address employment contracts and exclusive contracts?

    Medical staffs should include a provision in the bylaws stating that if there is a contractual arrangement between the hospital and any member of the medical staff, the terms of the contract take precedence over the bylaws, says Michael Callahan, an attorney at Katten Muchen Rosenman, LLP, in Chicago.
     

  • 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: How many times should we follow-up a practitioner that does not return a reappointment application?

    MSPs should first document the following:

    • Date the application was sent
    • Address where the application was sent
    • Any follow up communication regarding the status of the reappointment application