NOTE: We have extended the deadline to Monday, March 1!

We are currently seeking industry experts to speak at our upcoming conference, the National Provider Enrollment Forum, featuring a new credentialing and privileging track! The Forum will take place on September 21 and 22 at the Sheraton Nashville Grand Downtown in Nashville, TN. To apply, click here and fill out the application. 

Presentation topics could include:

• Enrollment with Medicare, Medicaid, or private payers
• Revalidations and maintaining enrollment
• Strategies for remote work
• Considerations for telemedicine practitioners
• Temporary, emergency, and disaster privileges
• Peer review, including ongoing professional practice evaluation and focused professional practice evaluation
• Professional development for enrollment and credentialing professionals

One of the key challenges that low- and no-volume providers present is how to assess their competence when you have little or no data on their performance in your organization. Most medical staff leaders say it is difficult to get any information of real value from references today.

Are patients skipping needed appointments? A research letter titled “Trends in Outpatient Care Delivery and Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S.,” published in November by JAMA Internal Medicine, hints that this may be the case.

The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle (the “Court”) granted in part and denied in part a defendant’s motion for summary judgment, finding that immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) cannot be applied when the information is shared with someone other than a professional review body.