Featured Content Teaching clinical documentation to fellow physicians Clinical documentation may not be the most exciting topic, but changes to the healthcare landscape are bringing further attention to its importance. Without proper documentation training, physicians can put their patients and facility at risk, as well as negatively impact their facility's bottom line. Despite this, clinical documentation training can often be overlooked.
Finding a lack of resources and tools that provide direction on clinical documentation for physicians, Joseph Cristiano, MD, assistant professor of general internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, set out to educate himself about the topic. During the process, he found that many seasoned colleagues were equally in the dark in regard to clinical documentation. Recognizing this as a learning opportunity, Cristiano began informally educating himself by reaching out to the business and compliance offices at Wake Forest, which led to other individuals within his institution with clinical documentation experience. Eventually, finding he had a good grasp on evaluation and management billing and office visit billing, he started teaching faculty throughout the institution. He did so in collaboration with the compliance office. Read more.  Why attend the 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium? - 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.
- 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.
- Understand the difference between verifying practice history and obtaining a professional reference. Take away a sample professional reference questionnaire to implement upon your return.
- Obtain 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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