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The Advanced Roundtable
for Physician Leaders

The AHP Workshop

The Complete Course for
Medical Staff Leaders

The Credentialing Clinic

Hospital-Physician Financial Arrangements:
New Rules, New Risks, New Relationships

Medical Staff Investigations and Hearings

On-Call & EMTALA

The P.E.E.R. Program

 

 

   
 
 
 
 
 
       
 
   

 

SEMINAR TOPICS

Who Are We Talking About?

  • Licensed Independent Practitioners —
    audiologists, psychologists,
  • APRNs and PAs
  • Dependent Practitioners — private scrub techs, etc.

Determining the Need for a Category of AHPs

Credentialing Options

  • Joint Commission requirements
  • CMS requirements

Credentialing Tips Specific to AHPs

Privileges or Scope of Practice?

Turf Battles

  • How do you determine if something is within an AHP’s scope of practice?

Employed vs. Non-Employed AHPs

  • Should the hospital’s human resource policies be used for credentialing?
  • Do supervision, QI, and peer review processes
    differ?

Supervision, Collaborative Agreements, and Countersignatures

  • Supervision levels
  • How do you monitor supervision requirements?
  • If there is a quality problem with an AHP, to what extent (and how) should the supervising physician be held accountable?
  • Role of hospital with respect to collaborative agreement

Assessing Competence

  • How will AHPs with privileges be worked into the hospital’s PI and peer review systems?

Procedural Rights for AHPs

Role of AHPs in Emergency Call Response and in Medical Screening in ED

Role of Sales Representatives

Separate Policy on AHPs? Include in Bylaws? What Makes Sense? What does the Joint
Commission Require?

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