Provider enrollment should be on MSPs’ radars, if not yet on their dockets, according to Carol Cairns CPMSM, CPCS, advisory consultant with The Greeley Company and president of PRO-CON, an Illinois-based medical staff services consulting group, and Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPMSM, CPCS, a medical staff consultant based in Dallas. According to the Credentialing Resource Center's 2016 MSP Salary Survey, 32.1% of respondents reported that their department performs both medical staff services and provider enrollment tasks.

The Supreme Court of Florida (the “Supreme Court”) has reversed a controversial Florida First District Appellate Court (the “Appellate Court”) decision. The Appellate Court had held that the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) preempted a provision of the Florida constitution providing patients with the right to access “adverse medical incident reports.” Amendment 7 of the Florida Constitution, adopted by voters in 2004, provides patients with the right to access “any records made or received in the course of business by a health care facility or provider relating to any adverse medical incident.”

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