What You Will Learn

The conference will provide 11 hours of education and discussion and will cover topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Establishing the basis for all credentialing and privileging actions
  • Protecting the patient
  • Facilitating physician practice in the organization
  • Protecting the organization from legal, regulatory and accreditation problems
• Designing a credentialing system that promotes continual competence validation
• How to create lasting value and alignment of the medical staff with the mission of the organization through the credentialing process
• Planning for the organization’s clinical needs: The interface between strategic planning and credentialing and privileging
• Interface between employment practices for physicians and other LIPs and the credentialing and competency evaluation process
• Privileging 1-2-3
  • Establishing the scope of services and the rules
  • Matching qualifications to requests for privileges
  • Evaluating competency and making final decisions
• Effortless and effective FPPE
  • Reducing the proctoring burden
• The use and misuse of OPPE to continuously evaluate and document competency
• Using technology to simplify credentialing and privileging
• Legal lessons to minimize liability
• Documenting credentialing and privileging policies to comply with CMS and Joint Commission requirements related to contents of the Medical Staff Bylaws (Joint Commission standards MS.01.01.01)
• Contemporary credentialing and privileging challenges and solutions
  • Initial appointment
  • Privileging
  • Reappointment
  • Privileging of advanced practice allied health professionals
  • Turf battles
  • Telemedicine
• How to deal with tough practitioner problems
  • Performance/competency issues
  • Behavior issues