Negligent Credentialing: Best Practices to Prevent Successful Plaintiff Litigation

Presented on:
March 22, 2016
1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. ET

Presented by:
Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS

Identifying red flags within credentialing applications can be the first step to protecting yourself and your facility from a successful plaintiff litigation. In this 90-minute webcast, which includes 30 minutes of Q&A, expert Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS, discusses ways to recognize issues within a credentialing application that require immediate action or additional questioning. Smith also provides best practices an organization should adopt to prevent credentialing-based lawsuits.

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

Identify at least three red flags in credentialing applications that require action or explanation
Know what a negligent credentialing claim entails
Assemble the necessary documentation to help combat negligent credentialing

Price: $199

Meet the Speaker

Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS, is a senior consultant with HG Healthcare Consultants, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm, and the chief medical officer for Morrisey Associates, Inc. He brings 25 years of clinical practice and hospital administration experience to his work with physicians and hospitals across the United States, where he provides expertise in system quality and performance improvement, peer review, ongoing and focused professional practice evaluation, management of deficient practitioner performance, criteria-based privileging, low-volume practitioners, ED call, and external focused review. Dr. Smith is a board-certified surgeon who practices part time as a clinical assistant professor of surgery in the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery section at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. Previously, he practiced general and vascular surgery in a private practice setting. .

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