Credentialing Resource Center Journal

The bottom line when it comes to verifying malpractice history is that it is important to collect as much information about the cases as possible, whether it is disclosed by the practitioner or another party.

Practitioners in your organization may already be treating patients with complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) or they may be seeing patients who receive these medicines from other sources. Either way, it’s important that your medical staff stay informed about CAM.

Contrary to the image portrayed in movies or television shows, prisons must provide top-notch healthcare to inmates. A large part of that responsibility includes credentialing health practitioners.

Becky Cochran, CPMSM, CPCS, is the director of medical staff services at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, NM. This is her first column for Briefings on Credentialing.

This month, Cochran highlights a case with multiple examples of red flags that weren’t followed up on. In other words, the MSP and medical staff failed to perform their “duty to know.”