Credentialing & Privileging for Accountable Care: A Prescription for the Ailing Stethoscope & the Dull Scalpel

Credentialing and Privileging for Accountable Care, answers the credentialing needs of over 40,000 US hospitals as they scramble to implement a more robust credentialing process and meet the requirements of accountable care. This must-read book looks at all aspects of the credentialing and privileging processes including: corporate responsibility, duty of care, negligent credentialing, regulatory requirements. It also examines and shares implementation ideas for measuring credentialing programs covering topics such as outcomes measures, efficiency measures, patient-centered measures and specialty-specific measures. Written by a nationally known expert on credentialing and privileging, this book will give readers a greater understanding of this complicated area and provide valuable insights on how to improve the credentialing and privileging processes.