This week, the Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) is celebrating the 2018 class of CRC Contest winners. These professionals leverage their deep expertise across a broad range of medical staff services and leadership functions, have a penchant for productive interdisciplinary collaboration, and demonstrate unwavering passion for their important work.

In honor of this clear commitment to industry excellence, we’re granting all CRC Daily readers and CRC site visitors access to exclusive members-only content about the 2018 CRC Contest winners. Check back in throughout the week for new insights on winners’ paths to professional success and other achievement-focused guidance.

Like most who go into medical staff services, Cassie L. Kana, CPMSM, CPCS, didn’t know what the field entailed until she got into it. But it didn’t take her long to realize that she had found the right career.

The increasing trend toward direct employment of physicians by hospitals may seem to be shifting power from physicians to hospitals; however, in the words of Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, “it ain’t over till it’s over.”

A Moody’s report on hospital financial trends pointed out that while physician employment can be an effective strategy for revenue growth, it can also result in lowering operating margins, and as a result, hospital creditworthiness.

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