Core Privileges for Physicians

A Practical Approach to Developing and Implementing Criteria-based Privileges, Fifth Edition
Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS; Sally J. Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS; Richard A Sheff, MD, CMSL

Product Description:

Ensure that your facility has the best, most up-to-date privileging system available.

This comprehensive resource combines a how-to manual with downloadable forms to help you develop and implement the most efficient and consistent privileging system available—the core privileging approach. It includes 77 customizable physician specialty and subspecialty core privileging forms, along with applicable corresponding procedure lists, that are the culmination of Credentialing Resource Center White Paper research and Greeley Company expertise.

What’s new?

  • All forms have been updated to reflect the most current criteria
  • New forms have been added for practice areas such as pediatric critical care and pediatric neurosurgery
  • Language has been updated to clarify the critical distinction between membership and privileges

Benefits:

  • Meet Joint Commission requirements for criteria-based privileging
  • Use the complete downloadable library of 77 customizable sample core forms for specialties and subspecialties as a starting point for your own privileges
  • Manage physician competency and criteria-based privileging in an increasingly data-driven environment
  • Eliminate weeks of researching specialty medical societies for competency benchmarks, evaluating data, and creating draft forms
  • Utilize expert insights to develop core forms, design an effective core system, and overcome implementation hurdles

About the author:

Sally J. Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, founder of Best Practices Consulting Group in Intervale, NH, brings more than 17 years of credentialing and privileging experience to her work with medical staff leaders and medical service professionals across the nation. Pelletier advises in the areas of accreditation compliance, credentialing and privileging assessment and redesign, medical staff services department assessments, and leadership and development training for medical staff services professionals.

About the contributors:

Richard A. Sheff, MD, CMSL, serves as chairman and Executive Director for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, in Marblehead, MA. With more than 25 years of healthcare management and leadership experience, Dr. Sheff helps dozens of organizations each year to develop tailored and valued solutions to the unique needs of physicians and hospitals and has authored and lectured on a wide range of healthcare management and leadership issues and topics.

Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, has participated in the development of the medical staff services profession for more than 35 years. She is the president of PRO-CON, an Illinois consulting firm specializing in credentialing, privileging, medical staff organization operations, and survey preparation, and is a senior consultant and frequent presenter with The Greeley Company.

The table of contents includes:

  • I: The Basics
  • II: Developing and implementing core privileges
  • III: Sample core privilege forms and procedure lists
  • Specialty core forms include:
    • Allergy/Immunology
    • Anesthesiology
    • Colon and Rectal Surgery
    • Dentistry
    • Dermatology
    • Emergency Medicine
    • Family Medicine
    • General Surgery
    • Hyperbaric Medicine
    • Internal Medicine
    • Medical Genetics
    • Neurology
    • Nuclear Medicine
    • Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Ophthalmology
    • Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
    • Orthopedic Surgery
    • Otolaryngology
    • Pathology
    • Pediatric
    • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    • Plastic Surgery
    • Podiatry
    • Psychiatry
    • Radiology
    • Thoracic Surgery
    • Urology
  • Subspecialty core forms include:
    • Adolescent Medicine
    • Cardiac Surgery
    • Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology)
    • Critical Care
    • Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics
    • Endocrinology
    • Gastroenterology
    • Geriatric Medicine
    • Hematology/Oncology
    • Infectious Disease
    • Medical Toxicology
    • Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine
    • Nephrology
    • Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
    • Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
    • Neurological Surgery
    • Occupational and Environmental Medicine
    • Pain Medicine
    • Palliative Medicine
    • Pediatric Anesthesiology
    • Pediatric Cardiology
    • Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
    • Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
    • Pediatric Dentistry
    • Pediatric Emergency Medicine
    • Pediatric Endocrinology
    • Pediatric Gastroenterology
    • Pediatric General Surgery
    • Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
    • Pediatric Infectious Diseases
    • Pediatric Nephrology
    • Pediatric Neurosurgery
    • Pediatric Ophthalmology
    • Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery
    • Pediatric Otolaryngology
    • Pediatric Pulmonology
    • Pediatric Radiology
    • Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
    • Pediatric Rheumatology
    • Pediatric Urology
    • Pulmonary Medicine
    • Radiation Oncology
    • Rheumatology
    • Sleep Medicine
    • Sports Medicine
    • Surgery of the Hand
    • Surgical Critical Care
    • Surgical Oncology
    • Urgent Care Center
    • Vascular Surgery
  • Appendix A: The Medicare COP and Joint Commission credentialing and privileging standards
  • Appendix B: Professional resources for developing criteria

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Publisher :  HCPro, Inc
 
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This comprehensive resource combines a how-to manual with downloadable forms to help you develop and implement the most efficient and consistent privileging system available-the core privileging approach. It includes more than 78 customizable physician specialty and subspecialty core privileging forms, along with applicable corresponding procedure lists, that are the culmination of Credentialing Resource Center White Paper research and Greeley Company expertise.
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ORDER CODE: CP5
SOURCE CODE: ESEARCHGB1
ISBN: 978-1-60146-737-9
PUBLISHED: 06/23/2010

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