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The Advanced Roundtable
for Physician Leaders

The Complete Course for
Medical Staff Leaders

The Credentialing Clinic

Governance for the Future

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

Medical Staff Investigations and Hearings

On-Call & EMTALA

The P.E.E.R. Program

 

   
 
 
 
 
 
       
 
   

 

  • How can checks and balances be worked into the peer review process to ensure fairness and efficiency?
  • Foundations for an effective process: transparency and expectations, multispecialty Peer Review Committee, legal protections
  • When and how should a practitioner be notified that a case is being reviewed?
  • Creating a process that complies with the Joint Commission’s requirements for ongoing and focused professional practice evaluation
  • Managing conflicts of interest
  • If a problem is identified through the process, how do you help the physician address it? What are the options? What do you need in your peer review policy to accomplish this? What do you need in your Medical Staff bylaws?
  • Do’s and Don’ts of Medical Staff investigations, using external reviewers, use of precautionary suspension
  • Special situations requiring review: low-volume practitioners, aging physicians, provisional appointment, new privileges
  • What must be reported to the NPDB?
  • Responding to references
  • And more