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 ...

Credentialing is an essential process for hospitals employing physicians. While tedious, hospitals that prioritize credentialing achieve greater return on investment than their counterparts that do ...

Reworking its process for getting physicians credentialed, insured, and approved to see patients was time-consuming, but it yielded a "gigantic payoff" for Dayton Children's Hospital. Hiring ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, the mental health of the healthcare workforce is widely reported as worsening. Despite increased attention, barriers to seeking mental health care remain high.

Credentialing physicians for a surgery center is quite an undertaking, considering the amount of information that must be double-checked before a provider is accepted into the facility. Dare Hartsell, ...

Amid challenges like staff shortages, physician burnout and endless administrative tasks, hospitals and health systems still are striving to scale their services and impact. To make improvements that ...

Two national insurers and a Michigan health system are joining a new pilot project aimed at simplifying physician credentialing with blockchain technology. WellCare and Spectrum Health are among the ...

Physician recruitment is one of the key growth strategies for ASCs. Surgery centers can either attract physicians to bring cases or new physician investors to boost case volume, add specialties or ...

Medical staff services once was a mostly clerical and administrative task focused on the job of verifying credentials of physicians for onboarding at hospitals and other providers. But it has become ...

When hospitals credential physicians, employers are often asked to complete attestation forms that might look like simple employment verifications. But sometimes, those forms go much further, crossing ...

In a highly unfavorable peer review decision, Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia v. Petraglia, entered on February 12, 2020, a Pennsylvania state appellate court upheld an order compelling a hospital ...

DALLAS – Cirrus Health has selected a physician credentials verification service in anticipation of increased credentialing requirements for providers. Some 1,100 practitioners in nine Cirrus Health ...