Weekly Roundup 6 days left until the 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, which boasts the following features: - Access to the top names in the industry. Hugh Greeley; Todd Sagin, MD, JD; Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS; and Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS; will be available to answer your most pressing questions.
- Two full days of networking opportunities. Plus, access to an attendees-only section on Credentialing Resource Center where you can download materials, and pre-submit questions for the speakers. Visit www.credentialingresourcecenter.com/network for more information.
- Increased focus on FPPE and OPPE educational sessions. Four sessions focusing on what to do with the data and strategies for utilizing members of the quality department, medical staff services department, and medical staff leaders to improve OPPE and FPPE.
- An interactive session on conducting an effective credentials committee. The speakers will act out some of the most common issues that arise during a credentials committee; from orientation (or a lack thereof) to their role as a credentials committee member, to policy and procedure development, to reviewing practitioner applications.
- Strategies for dealing with pressure from your colleagues to offer temporary privileges to physicians and understanding when and how to say no.
- Guidance on understanding the risks associated with bringing on a disruptive physician and how to avoid a negligent credentialing lawsuit.
- Understanding of the difference between verifying practice history and obtaining a professional reference. Take away a sample professional reference questionnaire to implement upon your return.
- Answers to your top industry concerns, including revisions to the National Practitioner Data Bank Guidebook, the current state of Maintenance of Certification requirements, physician self-queries, and much more!
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 Develop a robust policy on late-practice evaluation Increasingly, organizations are implementing policies for evaluating older members of the medical staff—often for practitioners at age 70, or earlier if self-referral occurs. Today's quick tip lays out some steps to consider including in such a policy. Read more. Request quality data from other hospitals Collaboration within and beyond the hospital is key to a robust OPPE process. MaineGeneral Medical Center, part of MaineGeneral Health system in the Augusta area, has taken this philosophy to heart. The hospital initiated OPPE and FPPE in 2009, but had a similar physician quality assessment process in place long before The Joint Commission standard took effect. Read more. Create a relevant OPPE process At this year’s Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, presenters Hugh Greeleyand Todd Sagin, MD, JD, will discuss how to create an OPPE process that is relevant, useful, and practical at their session A Focus on OPPE. Attendees will learn to select triggers that they can use, assess, and track. They will also learn what to do with “zero data,” and how to collect competency data that’s not readily available. Finally, they will take a closer look at the transition from initial FPPE to OPPE to FPPE for cause. Read more. OPPE and professional conduct The definition of OPPE can be expanded beyond traditional case review to include multiple and relevant performance dimensions. Today’s featured content comes from William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE, chief medical officer, Pocono Health System; East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and explains how to use professional conduct as a metric to assess an employed physician’s performance. Read more. Share your professional experiences, and you could win a free HCPro product! Each year, HCPro conducts the MSP Salary Survey to measure the compensation rates, professional duties, and other workplace trends that shape medical staff services departments across the country. With this information, we develop timely resources that align with MSPs’ evolving needs. We also provide focused analysis on survey responses to members of the Credentialing Resource Center.
To ensure our data reflects the national medical staff services landscape, we need your help. Please take a few moments to share your professional experiences in the 2016 MSP Salary Survey.
To show our thanks, we will select one respondent at random to win either of the following complimentary products (winner’s choice): Credentialing A to Z (book) or Negligent Credentialing: Best Practices to Prevent Successful Plaintiff Litigation (webcast).
Click here to take the survey, or paste the following URL into the address bar of your browser: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2016MSPsalary.
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