We are currently seeking industry experts to speak at our upcoming conference, the National Provider Enrollment Forum, featuring a new credentialing and privileging track! Forum will take place on September 21 and 22 at the Sheraton Nashville Grand Downtown in Nashville, TN. To apply, click here and fill out the application by Monday, February 22, 2021.

Presentation topics could include:

• Enrollment with Medicare, Medicaid, or private payers
• Revalidations and maintaining enrollment
• Strategies for remote work
• Considerations for telemedicine practitioners
• Temporary, emergency, and disaster privileges
• Peer review, including ongoing professional practice evaluation and focused professional practice evaluation
• Professional development for enrollment and credentialing professionals

It can be difficult sometimes to justify holding meetings. But they are an important tool for communication in any organization, especially healthcare institutions. The following are some effective ways that the medical staff services office can support meeting efficiency.

The surgery department chair walked into the medical staff services department and asked Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, to add the issue of aging physicians to the agenda of the department’s next meeting. Cairns was surprised. And naturally curious. This general surgeon was a highly respected member of the medical staff, having served as surgery department chair multiple times and president of the medical staff twice (a distinction only one other facility physician could claim). He was also 67 years old.

Does it often seem like your quality department and medical staff services department are doing the same work related to peer review and quality improvement? Historically, these two processes have been developed separately and lived in siloed departments. In this 90-minute webinar, speaker Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS, will explore how to realign these departments to minimize duplicative work while also ensuring your peer review processes remain effective, efficient, and unbiased.