All Entries Tagged With: "reappointment"

Contest entry: Skip the back and forth at reappointment

Donnie E. Sauls, MBA, CPMSM, manager of medical staff services at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY, submitted a great suggestion for eliminating MSPs’ and physicians’ paperwork frustrations at reappointment time. Sauls schedules one-on-one meetings with physicians to assist them in completing the electronic reapplication form. All incorrect or incomplete information is manually updated on the electronic form as the physician looks on. Sauls prints out the form for the physician to sign and makes copies for him or her to put in a take-home package for the physician. 

“Our physicians are very pleased with the process because it takes around eight minutes to do, and there is no back-and-forth requests for incomplete reappointment applications. They also get to have a copy of their reappointment application with no out-of-pocket expenses,” Sauls writes. 

Thanks for the great tip, Donnie! Keep ‘em coming!

Free Form Friday: Audit tool for reappointment applicants

Welcome back to the third week of Free Form Friday – and the first week featuring the new blog design we unveiled on Wednesday.

This week’s form is an audit tool for reappointment applicants. The form is already partially filled in to show readers how it functions, and can be customized to meet your medical staff’s needs.

To access this week’s form, click here.

What free form would you like to see next week? Drop me a line at eberry@hcpro.com and let me know.

Cheers!

Emily Berry
Associate Editor

Is the Proactive Disclosure Service from the National Practitioner Data Bank for you?

I’ve been considering signing up for the Proactive Disclosure Service (PDS) but thought it was too expensive. So I did a little homework and here’s what I discovered: The PDS meets the mandatory hospital query requirements of the Health Care Quality Improvement Action of 1986. It is acceptable to The Joint Commission, Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities as an alternative to direct querying the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB).

Several hospitals that I contacted that are using PDS are very pleased with the streamlined and efficient process. Those that are not using PDS indicate that they consider the service too expensive.

I created a scenario to look at actual costs. The number of practitioners at my make-believe hospital is 1,200.  I process 150 applications each year. My average reappointment number is 600.  Approximately 70 practitioners add new privileges each year. Based on the current PDS enrollment rate of $3.25 per practitioner, I calculated the following:

One of the benefits of PDS is the notification you receive when a report is filed on one of your enrolled practitioners.  You get notified immediately and do not have to wait for reappointment to learn about new actions.

What is not included in the calculation is staff time.  How much staff time does it take to query and retrieve reports?   Would staff time cost be less than $492.50/year?

Carole  La Pine, MSA, CPMSM, CPCS