When making a request for privileges, applicants must meet the criteria and qualifications for those privileges, or their request will not be processed. Criteria for privileging is focused on competency to perform the requested patient care services. Eligibility criteria for privileges could include the following:

Recent studies confirm that non-medical reading can combat burnout by increasing empathy and decreasing depersonalization in physicians. In an attempt to determine the impact of reading on burnout, Daniel Marchalik, MD, AMA member, medical director of physician wellbeing at MedStar Health, worked with his colleagues to send a survey to approximately 2,500 doctors. The survey asks questions focused on burnout, demographics, reading habits, and undergraduate curriculum offerings.

Through University Hospital's medical staff services and credentialing career ladder, an entry-level hire begins as either a credentialing assistant or credentialing quality control specialist and can work his or her way up the departmental rungs as a medical staff services and credentialing coordinator, analyst, and team lead. MSPs who demonstrate exemplary skill in a role can advance to a senior level, which comes with more responsibility and a higher salary. Promotion is contingent on the employee’s ability to meet a number of performance benchmarks and requirements.

Process refers to how the physician delivers care. For example, a good process indicator for a hospital that provides acute myocardial infarction (AMI) services might be the time it takes to begin a catheterization procedure, or the so-called “door-to-wire” time. Why? Because clinical studies show that the quicker this procedure is performed, the better the quality of care as defined by myocardial preservation.

Working together to solve a problem is much better and less frustrating than going it alone, or worse, working at odds with someone else approaching the same challenge. The takeaway message from this series to date is to figure out how medical staff leaders and MSPs can jointly use their unique skills and experiences to solve shared problems. Here is a common real-life situation and an approach based on what has been discussed to this point.

Credentialing Resource Center Journal recently sat down with David J. Pugach, JD, vice president of public policy for the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to ask how ongoing initiatives, such as the single graduate medical education accreditation system, are proceeding and what initiatives the AOA will be focusing on in 2019. 

Need help convincing your organization to send you to the 2019 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium? Download this letter explaining the benefits and highlights of the conference.

Here are the top five reasons why you need to attend 2019 CRC Symposium, kicking off February 26 in Las Vegas:

1. Learn from experienced speakers in the industry on hot topics such as:
   • Advanced practice professionals privileging and competency assessment methods
   • Credentialing and privileging in nonhospital settings
   • Risk management and credentialing
   • CVO creation and implementation
   • Provider enrollment
   • OPPE & FPPE
   • Employed physicians
   • Conflicts of interest
   • Delegated credentialing
   • Telemedicine
   • Legal issues in credentialing, privileging, and peer review
   • Competence assessment strategies for medical staff leaders
      
2. Network and problem solve with physician leaders, medical staff committee members, chief medical officers, vice presidents of medical affairs, medical staff services directors, medical staff services managers, medical staff coordinators, medical staff professionals, credentialing professionals, quality directors, quality managers, and other passionate industry professionals.
3. Earn a vast number of continuing education credits, including the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS), and National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ).
4. Discover the newest credentialing and privileging solutions by visiting our exhibit hall.
5. Experience a one-of-a-kind city. Find out why Las Vegas is the entertainment capital of the world.