The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the healthcare sector, a recent LocumTenens.com survey shows. The survey was conducted in June and highlights information collected from 940 healthcare professionals in 35 medical specialties. The survey features several key data points, including 64% of survey respondents who said they were unemployed reported losing their jobs due to the impact of COVID-19 on their healthcare organizations.

In some form or another, almost every practitioner has either heard of or been involved in a privileging criteria dispute. Fortunately, there are ways to resolve the situation—or to avoid it altogether.

Have an all-star MSP on your team? We want to know! Email CRC editor Karla Accorto at kaccorto@hcpro.com with their name, organization, email address, and a few sentences about what makes them such a great MSP and team member. Your nominated MSP could be featured in an upcoming issue of our Credentialing Resource Center Digest! To see our latest MSP shout-out, click here. 

The Credentialing Resource Center’s annual MSP Salary Survey measures the compensation rates, essential duties, and other workplace trends shaping the careers of MSPs across the industry. The 2020 edition features new and improved questions and response options, developed with input from MSPs working in credentialing environments ranging from acute care hospitals and ambulatory centers to CVOs and health plans.

Click here to take the 2020 MSP Salary Survey today to make sure your professional experiences are represented. The more responses we have, the more meaningful (and actionable) the data will be in the special reports we release for both CRC members and non-members.

Beyond receiving copies of the reports, to show our thanks for taking the survey, we will select one person at random to recieve free on-demand access to the 2020 Credentialing Resource Center Virtual Event.

Convinced? Click the following link to take the 2020 MSP Salary Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KFCBM6L.

CRC members can now peruse all of the online articles from the July 2020 issues of CRCJ and MSB—as well as full-color PDFs here:

• CRCJ
• MSB

To access the relevant full-issue PDF, select "DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE" at the top of the page.

The evolving relationship between physicians and hospitals is a far cry from that which gave rise to the organized medical staff in the early 20th century. From the 1920s into the 1980s, joining a medical staff was an essential step for most physicians. During this time, hospital privileges truly were a privilege. Once granted, physicians were fairly certain that they would earn a good living, have professional autonomy, and practice with professional satisfaction. The medical staff was perceived as a club they wanted to join. Physicians gained entrance generally through a department that they served by taking emergency department call and filling leadership positions, which was thought to be a great honor. However, this social contract is unraveling, and the traditional medical staff organized by departments is often insufficient to meet the new challenges posed by the rapidly evolving and changing healthcare environment.

The Court of Appeals for the First Appellate District of Ohio (the “Court”) affirmed a trial court’s decision, finding that peer review privilege did not apply to documents used in quality assurance procedures because they were available for viewing via the original source.