b>Health Care Credentialing, takes you far beyond the standard review of credentialing concerns, delivering insights into innovative ways to collect, process and assess credentialing information. No matter where you’re conducting credentialing, this resource will help you keep pace with the latest ideas and approaches.Specifically, Health Care Credentialing will help you:

Take into account complex laws, regulations, and accreditation standards as they apply to credentialing
Handle disruptive care and clinical competency issues Access information for evaluating core competencies to be used in credentialing Stay up-to-date on relevant regulations, statutes, and accreditation standards

Health Care Credentialing helps you address the critical issues in this important arena. This unique resource delivers:

Coverage of credentialing for disaster management Innovative processes to upgrade clinical competencies outside the credentialing system Guidance on Board and IRB credentialing Innovative perspectives to address behavioral problems and disruptive individuals Cutting-edge approaches to Pay-For-Performance and credentialing Ahead-of-the-curve insights into credentialing and federal requirements such as the ADA Rehab Act Section 504 and EEOC guidance

In addition, Health Care Credentialing will help you:

Keep pace with credentialing standards and relevant state and federal requirements Launch important credentialing initiatives Implement alternative programs to address emerging credentialing issues And much more!

Health Care Credentialing has been updated to include:

New sections on:

New ACOs: Physician-Hospital Alignment Changes in Medical Staff Structures Technology Utilization Competency Innovative Bylaws and Credentialing Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Credentialing

Discussion of changes in the proposed rule for the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB) and the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Updated information on credentialing for advanced practice practitioners
Updated information on telemedicine Discussion of the May 2012 revisions to the medical staff and nursing services Conditions of Participation Updated information on the final rule for screening and program requirements for ACOs Discussion of the following cases:

Smigaj v. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital West Florida Regional Medical Center v. See Gargiulo v. Baystate Health, Inc. Effective reversal of the Archuleta decision by Utah Code section 78B-3-425 Cawthorn v. Catholic Health Initiatives Iowa Corp. d/b/a/ Mercy Hospital Medical Center Appeal of Sternberg v. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital Jablonsky v. Sierra Kings Healthcare District Preau v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company Lawnwood Medical Center Inc. v. Randall Seeger Smith v. Cleveland Clinic Gaalla v. Brown State of Rhode Island Department of Health Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline, In the matter of Alexandra Thran, MD

Updated discussions of and references to The Joint Commission’s 2012 Hospital Accreditation Standards