Language that addresses the EMTALA requirements to assess, stabilize, and determine a patient’s condition can be added to your delineation of privilege forms as applicable to each specialty for which the medical executive committee (MEC) has established call coverage requirements. The language can simply be stated as follows: “Assess, stabilize, and determine disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical staff policy regarding emergency and consultative call services.”

With integrated departments, onboarding of employed practitioners includes credentialing and privileging, but now ends after successfully enrolling practitioners with commercial insurers, Medicare, and Medicaid. However, this endpoint is changing as many hospitals integrate their medical staff services and provider enrollment functions into one department, says Amy Niehaus, CPMSM, CPCS, MBA, president of AMN Consulting.

When medical staff services and provider enrollment processes are integrated into the same office, MSPs may have to work with enrollment specialists to report to stakeholders how providers are tracking through the credentialing and enrollment processes. Many organizations hold regular meetings where stakeholders receive updates on credentialing and enrollment. Who attends these meetings and their structure varies by organization. The following case studies provide examples for how you might set up similar meetings in your organization.

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