Credentialing Audits

Intense scrutiny is being placed on hospitals to improve patient safety and decrease liability stemming from negligent credentialing lawsuits. How will you face the challenges of this new priority?

Turn to the one and only comprehensive risk management tool that addresses these factors and provides hands-on advice for performing credentialing audits—Credentialing Audits: Tools for Compliance and Reduced Liability. This book and CD-ROM set is filled with practical advice and sample tools you can use to improve your facility, including:

• audit checklists 
• audit procedures options 
• sample regulatory requirement language

Your priority is our priority

The spotlight on methodically maintaining credentialing files to increase patient safety is coming from multiple directions—regulators, the public, and hospitals themselves. An effective audit process will not only protect your facility but also makes good business sense for medical staff professionals and others who must:

• update credentials files at reappointment
• prepare for a JCAHO survey
• produce documents in the case of an adverse event
• organize the files when using a CVO   
• create annual auditing and credentialing reports for presentation to the board

Learn the ins-and-outs of performing credentialing audits

Used together, this book and CD-ROM set will help you:

• perform standardized audits of practitioners’ credentialing files
• maintain organized and up-to-date credentials files
• avoid negligent credentialing
• manage risk and compliance
• create audit checklists
• determine evidence of physicians’ current competence
• write credible and convincing audit reports
• conduct a delegated credentialing audit

Table of Contents . . .

From the newbie who's starting from scratch and individuals “outside” of the medical staff office or credentialing department to the veteran wanting to "brush-up," there's something for everyone! Take a look:

• Chapter 1: Credentialing’s key roles: Patient protection, practice facilitation, and institutional protection and support
• Chapter 2: Preparing your files for a credentialing audit
• Chapter 3: Selecting a method for conducting credentialing audits
• Chapter 4: Setting up routine audits and staying on schedule
• Chapter 5: Complying with regulators, reducing liability, and avoiding negligent credentialing lawsuits
• Chapter 6: Using credentials audits as the basis for an annual report
• Chapter 7: Conducting a delegated credentialing audit

Solutions from a National Credentialing Expert

Vicki L. Searcy, CPMSM, Practice Director for Credentialing & Privileging for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc.  Ms. Searcy is the former President of Searcy Resource Group, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm specializing in the field of medical staff organization management and quality improvement. She is a popular speaker at conferences, seminars, and medical staff and board retreats, speaking on a variety of topics such as credentialing, privileging, peer review, and competency management. And, she is nationally recognized as a leading innovator and pioneer in the field of designing systems related to physician competency, development of privilege delineation systems as well as physician profiling.

A must-read for . . .

Medical staff professionals, medical staff leaders, credentialing and peer review, committee members, medical directors, medical executive committee members, VPs of medical affairs, risk managers, in-house counsel, presidents of medical staff, quality managers, and compliance officers.

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