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The Comprehensive Guide to Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging
Beverly E. Pybus

Hardcover: 350 pages + bonus CD-ROM
ISBN 1578392403
9781578392407
HCPro Inc.
April 2003
Price $149.95

 

Your best resource to develop an efficient, effective credentialing system!

With patient safety, JCAHO accreditation, and legal issues on the line, it is crucial to have a process to credential and privilege medical staff applicants. Plus, with limited resources and high turnover rates in medical staff offices, there is great demand that your credentialing and privileging be efficient as well. 

Having a reference guide to give you the answers you need about credentialing and privileging and help you streamline your process makes for an invaluable resource. The Comprehensive Guide to Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging will help you evaluate and improve your credentialing system!

The Comprehensive Guide to Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging is a thorough guide to credentialing and privileging that starts with the basics of credentialing and ends with a self-assessment tool you can use to assess your own credentialing process. You'll receive easy-to-understand explanations, essential advice, and thorough sample policies, forms, and checklists to help you improve your credentialing process.

And with an accompanying CD-ROM, all forms and policies can be printed or shared, as is, or easily customized for your own facility. With The Comprehensive Guide to Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging you'll be able to:

  • evaluate your current credentialing process

  • identify areas of improvement

  • create a step-by-step comprehensive credentialing and privileging program

  • comply with the requirements set by JCAHO and other regulatory agencies

  • save time by having an efficient credentialing and privileging process

  • minimize risk of potential malpractice lawsuits

Each Chapter of The Comprehensive Guide to Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging thoroughly breaks down the following topics

  • Common questions on the basics of credentialing from concepts to terminology

  • General rules to follow when credentialing and privileging

  • Roles and Responsibilities of the applicants and those processing the applications

  • Pre-application process

  • Application stage

  • Primary source verification

  • Review & Action stage

  • Reappointment stage

  • Privileging basics

  • Documentation

  • Troublesome issues including disruptive physicians

  • Emerging issues on credentialing

  • Emergency (disaster) credentialing

  • Self-assessment of your credentialing system

Special Feature - The Comprehensive Guide to Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging is jammed packed with "From the field" tips on credentialing and privileging from seasoned MSSPs. With these tips, advice, and assessment tools, you'll be able to build a credentialing and privileging system that makes it easy to comply with JCAHO standards and ultimately makes your job more manageable. This resource is a "must-have" tool for:

  • President of the medical staff

  • Vice President of Medical Affairs

  • JCAHO survey coordinators

  • Medical staff coordinators

  • Credentials committee members

  • Department chairs

  • Medical Executive Committee members

Beverly E. Pybus, CPMSM, is Senior Consultant for Credentialing and Privileging Services for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. Prior to joining the Greeley Company, Ms. Pybus was Principal of The Beverly Group, a healthcare consulting firm based in Georgetown, MA. She also has worked with medical staff and health care organizations across the country to design practical, up-to-date credentialing and core privileging systems and to help resolve the sensitive issues that often accompanies credentialing decisions. Beverly is the author and editor of numerous articles and books about credentialing and privileging.

Hardcover: 350 pages + bonus CD-ROM
ISBN 1578392403
9781578392407
HCPro Inc.
April 2003
Price $149.95

 

Your best resource to develop an efficient, effective credentialing system!

With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety.

(information provided by the publisher)

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