Your license is accountable for outcomes that often depend on systems you didn't design and can't fully control. What most physicians don't know is that their Medical Staff membership — backed by Joint Commission standards — gives them a formal, documented right to escalate when those systems fail.
Here is a plain-language explanation of the federal database at the center of every credentialing decision in American healthcare — from someone who spent 7 years operating it from the inside.
A physician can have a permanent NPDB record created because of an investigation they were never told was happening. Here is what you need to understand before you act.
Your license is accountable for outcomes that often depend on systems you didn't design and can't fully control. What most physicians don't know is that their Medical Staff membership — backed by Joint Commission standards — gives them a formal, documented right to escalate when those systems fail.
For hospital executives, MECs, and Medical Staff professionals: seven field-tested tips for building an OPPE program that holds up under Joint Commission scrutiny.
Here is a plain-language explanation of the federal database at the center of every credentialing decision in American healthcare — from someone who spent 7 years operating it from the inside.
The NPDB cannot evaluate whether the standard of care was met. It has no jurisdiction to do so. Physicians who don't know this before filing a dispute often find out too late
A physician can have a permanent NPDB record created because of an investigation they were never told was happening. Here is what you need to understand before you act.