Credentialing Resource Center Connection

Dear readers,

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the annual National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) conference in Milwaukee, WI. As always, it was a pleasure to meet Briefings on Credentialing readers in person and hear what you’d like to read about in the newsletter. I attended several informative sessions ranging from CVO best practices to managing AHPs. Outside of the conference I enjoyed myself as well. On Monday night I attended a reception at the Pabst Mansion hosted by the CACTUS Software group, and I brought home some great souvenirs including cheese in the shape of a motorcycle (Milwaukee’s home to the Harley-Davidson Museum) and photographs of the “Bronzie Fonzie” statue from Happy Days. 

I asked Paul M. Schyve, MD., Senior Vice President for Joint Commission a question at the NAMSS National Conference regarding the survey for compliance with credentialing and privileging standards. I noted that MSPs pride themselves on the job they do with primary source verification and other aspects of the credentialing process. But over the past few years, there seems to be a trend for surveyors to give the credentials files a only cursory review.