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 ...

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 ...

Two Cleveland startups — Hyr Medical and Axuall — are working together to streamline the credentialing process for health care practitioners. Hyr connects health care providers with places to practice ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

During discovery, it may be determined that claims for negligent hiring, retention, supervision, and credentialing extend liability to entities which were not initially identified as parties. In his ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Availity, the nation’s largest real-time health information network, was selected as the single-source, NCQA approved, vendor for provider credentialing intake ...

Cosmos Medical Management (CMM) specializes in medical credentialing services, insurance credentialing services, and comprehensive revenue cycle management. With a focus on efficiency and compliance, ...

I have recently coined a new term for a terrible condition. This affliction can easily become an all-consuming source of misery for physicians. What is this terrible pathology, you may ask? I have ...