From Underperforming to Powerhouse: How Chartis Clinical Quality Teamed With a Multi-Hospital Health System to Operationalize a High-Performing Medical Staff Services Function

This organization teamed with us to transform Medical Staff Services through outsourcing the entirety of the functions managed by the department.

Establishing and Leveraging a CVO: A Gateway to Safety, Savings, and Simplification

A Credentialing Verification Organization (CVO) model offers financial benefits for hospitals and improved efficiency for providers and patients. Our expert explains the advantages.

Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE): To Report or Not Report. National Practitioner Data Bank’s New Definition of “Investigation.”

Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE): Report or not? NPDB’s new definition of “investigation.” Protect medical staff while making the most of FPPE.

10 Essential Steps to Successfully Achieve Criteria-based Privileging Across a System

As healthcare becomes integrated through M&A, one of the most difficult challenges for a system or network to achieve is an effective system-wide criteria based privileging methodology.

System-wide Medical Staff Integration

As we prepare for a changed future, health systems must make it easier for medical staff to effectively deliver care across the system, without unnecessary barriers, bureaucracy or costs.

Emergency, Temporary or Disaster Privileges – Which One is Right for You?

What does the activation of an Emergency Operations / Emergency Response Plan (EOP) mean for the Medical Staff Services Department?

COVID-19 Staffing Alternatives

In the event of an incident causing a large influx of inpatients into a healthcare organization, contingency actions outlining alternatives to usual staffing plans should be developed.

Make Your MSSD a Performance Powerhouse

Industry consolidation, regulatory challenges, new payment models, a jump in physician employment—how well is your Medical Staff Services Department (MSSD) managing change?