Compared to the average hospital, ambulatory facilities have much shorter rosters of affiliated practitioners, meaning a lone employee may constitute the entire credentialing workforce. Sometimes, practitioner vetting isn’t even that employee’s primary focus or area of expertise. “You usually don’t have a full-time MSP working in a place like that, so therefore they may not be up to speed with what’s required for credentialing and privileging,” says Kathy Matzka, CPMSM, CPCS, FMSP, an independent medical staff consultant in Lebanon, Illinois.

New research shows that hospitals acquired in an M&A deal often struggle to generate financial gains from economies of scale in the first two years after the transaction.

Across settings, organizations are granting official practice authorization using delineation of privilege (DOP) forms that are incomplete, or that seem to be so, according to the AAAHC Quality Roadmap 2016. Missing signatures and empty check boxes are often telltale signs of incongruity between codified processes and current practices.

In today’s ambulatory settings, what you measure will be affected by your organization’s willingness to invest in the resources needed to understand and manage quality as an essential part of your business rather than as a regulatory requirement. The questions for organizations outside the hospital are as follows: first, what should you measure and then what type—rule or rate—would work best based on volume and data collection resources?

"Writing Medical Staff Bylaws: How to Avoid Compliance Gaps and Implement Best Practices" is now available to Platinum Plus members of the Credentialing Resource Center (CRC)! 

Click here to access this new release directly through the CRC website.

Teamwork. Partnership. Alliance. Relationship. Cooperation. These are a few of the words listed in the thesaurus as synonyms for “collaboration.” I would like to add a few more ideas to that list: trust building, idea sharing, a path to improvement, synergy, and success.

Maybe it is the tipping point for some physicians, already stressed out about the other regulatory requirements they must adhere to that chip away at clinical time. Maybe it's the multiple tasks that must be completed to participate in the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) recertification process, known as Maintenance of Certification (MOC). Or maybe it's a little bit of both. The ABMS MOC program has come under heavy criticism from physicians, frustrated by the increasing requirements and cost to comply with the program.

Attention all Credentialing Resource Center members:

Last October, CRC debuted a sleek new website, an assortment of upgraded and expanded benefits, and a weekly delivery model for analysis articles and other exclusive member resources. As we approach the one-year anniversary of our makeover, we want to know how the new and improved CRC is treating you and what we can do to make your experience even better.
 
Please take a few moments to complete our 2017 CRC Membership Feedback Survey.  
 
As a thank you for sharing your valuable input, all respondents will receive a $40 digital gift card to use toward an HCPro medical staff book or webinar of their choice. Plus, one lucky survey taker will be chosen at random to receive a six-month upgrade to a Platinum Plus membership (or a six-month extension to his or her existing top-tier membership).

Only current Basic, Platinum, and Platinum Plus members of the Credentialing Resource Center are eligible to take this survey. Please log in to the CRC site with your membership credentials to view this full post and access the survey link. 

The Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) team is heading to the NAMSS Conference next week. Stop by Booth 109 to peruse the latest and greatest HCPro medical staff and credentialing resources, earn an exclusive discount and enter our raffle, and finally put faces to the CRC names you know and love.

We count on knowledgeable professionals like you to help us deliver the most timely resources and education to the medical staff and credentialing community.
 
Please take our brief survey to let us know which training topics and tools would make your job easier and you more efficient. 

To show our thanks, we will select one lucky respondent at random to receive an HCPro medical staff book or webinar of his or her choice. To enter to win, please include your contact information at the end of the survey once you have answered the questions.
 
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