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Poll question: Reimbursing for practitioner certifications
The American Board of Medical Specialties approved a new medical specialty for treating child abuse last month. This move highlights the importance practitioners place on regulating their work through certification programs. Medical staffs also value certifications and sometimes make them a privileging requirement.
In this week’s poll question we want to know if your organization helps pay for these certifications. Take the poll below and see how your facility compares to others.
Poll question: Have you ever paid for work-related expenses out of your own pocket?
With the economy still in the red, employers’ purse strings are as tight as ever. This penny-pinching doesn’t mean that the need for new office supplies or conference registration fees go away, however. Have you ever paid for work-related expenses out of your own pocket because the need for them outweighed budget restrictions?
Take our poll and find out how you compare with your peers.
Free Form Friday returns: ED call compensation white paper
We received a terrific response to the free forms we posted on the Credentialing Resource Center blog every Friday in January. Now we have another great form to share with you–for free!
Authored by Rick Sheff, MD, CMSL, chair and executive director with The Greeley Company, this white paper provides insights for both medical staffs and physicians to approach ED call coverage and compensation in the fairest way-as a negotiation based on interests and principles.
“Physicians and hospitals are struggling to determine which physicians should be paid for call and how much they should be paid, which, in essence, is a negotiation…The problem is that most physicians have not been trained in negotiation,” says Sheff.
Healthcare reform suggestions for real change
The American Medical Group Association in Alexandria, Virginia has 340 member groups representing approximately 93,000 physicians. The organization works to improve health care for patients by supporting multispecialty medical groups and other organized systems of care. It recently announced its report called “Healthcare Reform Principles” which it hopes will dramatically change the delivery of healthcare and reimbursement methodology. The number one priority of AMGA’s plan is to ensure access to care and reduce the number of Americans without healthcare insurance (currently reported to be 45.7 million). To read a press release about the report, click here.
Several of AMGA’s suggestions have been discussed and debated for years, including the problems of caring for the uninsured. However, there are some new ideas that should be considered and discussed by both MSPs and healthcare practitioners.