A challenge that commonly arises in addressing crossover privileges occurs when one specialty recommends different criteria for the same privilege requested by another specialty. Although it might be simpler to make the criteria the same regardless of the specialty, this does not take into account the training and experience of the different parties. There is no specific Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services language that requires that the criteria be exactly the same for every specialty.

In dual-physician couples, women with children worked fewer hours than women without children but similar differences in hours worked were not seen among men. That’s according to a new research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

This week’s Free Resource is from The Medical Staff Office Manual. The sample form is an algorithm you can use for privilege criteria development. As a medical staff team develops and updates criteria, areas beyond education, training, board status or certification (if applicable), experience, and evidence of current competence must be considered.

We struggle to obtain sufficient peer review data on advanced practice professionals (APP) who bill under their collaborating or supervising physician and do not keep personal logs. What can we do to assess their competence?

Check out (and contribute to) the latest conversations on topics ranging from ED foot call to endovascular coiling.

Every day in the news, you can’t help but hear about the terrible impact of overuse and addiction to opioids. As our country desperately searches for solutions, one of the questions being asked is how much patient satisfaction survey questions on pain management have affected physician prescribing patterns.

Featuring a handful of inpatient beds and a narrow selection of community-tailored services, microhospitals are seeking to revolution­ize care delivery in cities across the country.

These pint-sized purveyors of targeted interventions have a two-fold appeal: they present healthcare institutions with a low-risk vehicle for expanding or redefining their market presence and tout faster, more accessible care for patients in hubs where sluggish traffic, overcrowd­ing, and limited building options can put traditional hospital services out of comfortable reach.

But despite the burgeoning care model’s promise, its proliferation is outpacing the development of environment-specific regulations. Because microhospitals are currently regarded by CMS, accreditors, and many states as short-stay acute care hospitals, MSPs and medical staff leaders must determine how best to rescale credentialing and privileging processes originally developed for large, full-service facilities.

Because microhospitals are currently subject to regulations developed decades ago and with larger acute care institutions in mind, they can run into compliance obstacles that their traditional counterparts don’t often encounter or are better equipped to handle. Here’s a rundown of potential pitfalls and expert sidesteps.

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