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Featured Content | Sample bylaws language: Setting a responsibility to proctor | Most medical staffs and healthcare organizations have found it challenging to find physicians willing and available to proctor colleagues. In hospital settings, many medical staffs overcome these barriers by making proctoring an obligation of staff membership. Usually, this is facilitated by a clause in the medical staff bylaws indicating that all staff members must assist in the peer review activities of the organization. Proctoring is then considered one such peer review activity. This sample bylaws language can be tailored to your organization's proctoring needs. |
Consider partial unification of medical staffs | For some hospital systems, unifying medical staffs isn’t always the best option. In such situations, perhaps partial unification might be a better choice. This option allows medical staffs in a system to reap some of the benefits of a unified medical staff without compromising the identities of their individual medical staffs. |
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CRC Member Exclusive | The key to successful oversight: Keep the hospital board informed | The hospital governing board’s oversight responsibilities are critical to the success of the organization. Governing boards need information that can enable them to optimally perform their duties. The roles and responsibilities of the governing board include everything from ensuring cost-effective utilization of resources to determining the organization’s mission and establishing a long-range strategic plan to help accomplish this mission. Hospital governing boards have six major areas of responsibility, including the oversight of the medical staff credentialing process. This article will focus on the nuances in the relationship between the governing board and the hospital’s credentialing duties. |
New Platinum Plus eBook: Overcoming Contemporary Credentialing Challenges: Practical Strategies for MSPs and Medical Staffs | From increasing healthcare delivery and payment models to rapid-fire advances in telemedicine, credentialing software, and other game-changing technologies, today’s MSPs and medical staff leaders face continual evolution in their field. To meet the demands of an industry on the move, traditional credentialing approaches and medical staff makeups must evolve as well—a task that requires strategic intervention and broad buy-in. Featuring fresh insight from three authors with wide-ranging expertise,Overcoming Contemporary Credentialing Challenges: Practical Strategies for MSPs and Medical Staffs provides actionable guidance for contending with the culprits behind 10 of today’s top practitioner vetting pitfalls |
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CRC Announcements | Register for our upcoming provider enrollment webinar! | Join us on Tuesday, August 13 from 1:00-2:30 pm ET for our webinar Enrollment Solutions: Improving Payer Approvals, presented by Amy M. Niehaus, MBA, CPMSM, CPCS. Lengthy enrollment turnaround times with commercial payers can hurt an organization’s bottom line with delayed or lost revenue. Provider enrollment specialists have traditionally performed this function, but a growing contingent of MSPs are managing enrollment duties in addition to their existing medical staff credentialing obligations. During this 90-minute webinar, Niehaus will give attendees an understanding of the payer credentialing process and requirements under Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) standards. Attendees will also learn methods to reduce lost revenue due to payer credentialing delays and implement efficient enrollment processes. Click here to register or learn more. |
Join us at the podium at the 2020 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium | HCPro is currently seeking speakers to present at the 2020 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, to be held April 20-21 in New Orleans. Is that special person you or a colleague? We seek speakers to present on all aspects of credentialing, privileging, and medical staff functions across any healthcare setting. HCPro will waive admission fees to the 2020 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium for all selected speakers and co-speakers. Click here to apply! |
The 2019 MSP Salary Survey is now open! | The Credentialing Resource Center’s (CRC) annual MSP Salary Survey measures the compensation rates, essential duties, and other workplace trends shaping the careers of MSPs across the industry. The 2019 edition features new and improved questions and response options, developed with input from MSPs working in credentialing environments ranging from acute care hospitals and ambulatory centers to CVOs and health plans. To show our thanks for taking the survey, we will select one person at random to recieve a free seat to the 2020 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium. Click here to take the 2019 MSP Salary Survey today to make sure your professional experiences are represented. |
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