News roundup July 19-23

Your organization must take steps when addressing disruptive physician behavior. You must dedicate time and resources to explain to physicians—especially those manifesting the disruptive behaviors—that your hospital will no longer tolerate disruptive behavior.

The 2021 National Provider Enrollment Forum delivers two days of engaging education and training to provider enrollment professionals and credentialing/privileging professionals. Experienced veterans and top industry experts will be on hand to provide you best practices and tips. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to get step-by-step training and answers to your most pressing questions! Don't miss our brand-new credentialing track dedicated to the most important topics in credentialing and privileging.

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A growing number of physicians are taking on side gigs to earn extra income, according to a new report from Medscape. Of the more than 2,500 physicians surveyed for the report, 37% reported having a side gig.

While peer review helps evaluate a physician's competency for use in credentialing and privileging, it is also intended to help the physician improve the quality of his or her patient care. However, too often peer review focuses on assessment rather than remediation, says Todd Sagin, MD, JD, president and medical director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting based in Laverock, Pennsylvania.

Have you heard the acronym CVO lately and wondered what it stands for? Credentials verification organizations (CVO) are entities that perform a set of credentialing activities on behalf of clients (e.g., hospital medical staff services department, health plan) pursuant to an agreement. A CVO can usually verify practitioner credentials in a manner that is more efficient and cost-effective than the client can perform itself. This is due to the CVO’s ability to leverage the volume of practitioner verifications it performs and its use of this information on behalf of multiple clients, which therefore reduces duplication of effort.