Hospitals with well-defined leadership selection criteria that establish a physician’s eligibility to run for office are more likely to elect well-qualified, committed, and knowledgeable medical staff officers. It is hard to hit the target unless you aim for it.

President Donald Trump’s January 27 executive order placing significant restrictions on travel and immigration to the U.S. from seven predominantly Muslim countries—Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—for 90 days has hospitals and academic medical centers struggling to understand what it means for current and future physicians in training.

"If a doctor is more consistent in the amount of time spent with each patient, wait times tend to go down, and it puts less pressure on the doctor to make up the time by rushing.”

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires medical staff bylaws address who can perform the history and physical examination and in what time frame the history and physical exam must be completed. This free resource is sample bylaws addressing the completion of history and physical examination.

Provisional credentialing is an optional process that a health plan may incorporate into its credentialing policy. This process provides a managed care organization with the ability to add practitioners to its network prior to completing the full credentialing process. The intention of provisional credentialing is to allow a plan to meet its members’ needs for continuity or quality of care, similar to a hospital’s ability to grant temporary privileges for an immediate patient care need under Joint Commission standards.

CRC members can now peruse all the online articles from the January 2017 issues of CRCJ and MSB, as well as full-color PDFs.

Peer review expert Robert J. Marder, MD, gives best practices for moving to a multispecialty model of peer review and improving the overall culture regarding peer review.

Brush up on all the expert news and analysis CRCJ, MSB, and CPRLI had to offer last year with our comprehensive, hyperlinked 2016 story indexes, available exclusively to CRC members.

The CRC team is seeking enthusiastic medical staff leaders, MSPs, attorneys, and quality professionals to serve on a brand-new Tools and Forms Committee. Members will evaluate the publication merit of field-sourced credentialing, privileging, and peer review materials. Through incisive individual feedback and group discussion, committee members will build CRC’s living library of expert-vetted tools and forms from the ground up.In return for their important work, active committee members will receive complimentary Platinum Plus membership to the Credentialing Resource Center and public recognition on the site’s Boards and Committees page.

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