Lawmakers want the DoD and the VA to jointly select a single credentialing and privileging system for medical providers by January 2027.

With the growth in telemedicine, Critical Access Hospitals have a renewed interest in exploring delegated credentialing. Several years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

Changes in the healthcare industry are placing a growing list of demands on health plans, hospital and health system medical staff services and credentialing departments. In the quest to keep up with ...

Deviating from physician credentialing best practices puts healthcare organizations at risk for claims of negligence. Although physician credentialing may seem like a tedious administrative task, poor ...

When not managed properly, they can, and will, negatively impact a healthcare organization’s revenue. With regulatory requirements becoming more and more complex, incorrectly or poorly managed ...

It is also wise to have a credentials committee member review a file before the meeting at which it will be discussed. The two most important medical staff committees in the credentialing process are ...

The current version of South Carolina Senate Bill S. 290 that repeals the South Carolina Certificate of Need (CON) program, except for nursing homes, is now pending in the House Ways and Means ...

Although rare, issues of malpractice, substandard care, and even the extreme case of “Dr. Death” are very real events that can happen in the medical community. Since the launch of the National ...