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• Turning over the coin: Could the hospitalist boom hurt continuity of care, PCPs, and hospital revenue?

  A March 12 New England Journal of Medicine article confirms what we already know: The hospitalist community in the United States is booming. This comes as no surprise; just ask the estimated 23,000 hospitalists already in practice.

• Evolving physician practices create challenges for state licensing boards

  A report published in the February Pediatrics, reveals that only 34% of state licensing boards verify physicians’ clinical and CME activity when issuing or reissuing licenses. Additionally, only one board requires physicians to see a minimum number of patients to maintain an active license.

• The expanding role of MSPs

  In this week’s column, Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, discusses how the role of the MSP has evolved in recent years and why MSPs need to expand their knowledge outside of credentialing and privileging.

• Save the date: Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium November 8-9 in Naples, FL

  There are few opportunities for physician leaders to come together, share ideas, and learn from each other’s successes. The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium is a unique forum created to foster communication between new and experienced physician leaders from across the country.

  Attendees won’t be bound to a single track—choose sessions from each of the four tracks or focus on the area that presents the biggest challenge for your institution. Our faculty of experienced medical staff leaders, consultants, and legal experts will help you:

  • Identify and prioritize physician economic alignment opportunities
  • Design a strategy for managing conflicts of interest
  • Develop an ROI strategy for your hospitalist program
  • Assess the value of implementing a surgical hospitalist program
  • Understand and improve publicly reported quality data
  • Organize an efficient and successful peer review process
  • Identify the impact of PSO protections on your peer review process

  I also encourage you to sign up for one of our preconferences:

  • ED Call Solutions: Compensation that achieves collaboration
  • Medical Staff Bylaws: How to create documents that are clear, compliant, and fair
  • Physician Performance Measurement: Selecting indicators and targets for the six general competencies and OPPE

  To learn more about the Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium, visit www.greeley.com/seminars.

• Ask the expert: How can I help medical staff leaders prepare for a Joint Commission survey?

  Try a PowerPoint presentation with a little kick, says Dana Crowell, CPMSM, director of medical staff services at Longmont (CO) United Hospital. When a Joint Commission survey is imminent, Crowell gives a presentation that covers medical staff, credentialing, and privileging basics in a question-and-answer format. The following questions are all tied to a Joint Commission standard:

• Tip of the week: Create a policy for physician competency reports

  You’ve designed a physician reporting mechanism and are getting ready to distribute your first set of report cards—but do you have the right policies in place?

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