As provider organizations prepare for a changed future post COVID, health systems must make it easier for medical staff...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 23, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many challenges for healthcare organizations across...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 16, 2020 We are experiencing significant changes in healthcare as a result of...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 6, 2020 On March 18, 2020, The Joint Commission published in their Standards...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 25, 2020 As healthcare organizations continue to evolve their workplace environment to accommodate...
Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 24, 2020 Faced with a global pandemic, hospitals across the country have activated...
The Boy Scout motto of “be prepared” resonates strongly for healthcare organizations at the time of a disaster. Hospitals...
Renee Mock, CPMSM, CPCS outlines the journey to paperless credentials files at her hospital in this insightful article. Change...
Do you need assistance in creating an effective credentialing policy for returning practitioners? Contact us: 888.749.3054 Is your facility...
6/17/2019 - This webinar will provide attendees struggling to design an aging policy with Greeley's methodology for identifying...
The Greeley Company is pleased to offer an alternative for any hospital facing challenges in attaining the resources and...
The Greeley Company has a rich history of providing innovative consulting, education, outsourcing solutions, interim staffing, and external peer...
When you need to educate medical services professionals—for a NAMSS chapter event, an internal meeting, or some other purpose—...
What does a right-sized and optimized medical staff services department look like? And how do you get there? Sally Pelletier,...
Advanced practice nurses and physician assistants are playing increasingly important roles in patient care and organized leadership, stirring up...
Advanced practice nurses and physician assistants are playing increasingly important roles in patient care and organized leadership, stirring up...
6/14/2018 - Has your organization updated policies, processes, guidelines, and expectations to accommodate APPs in their new clinical and...
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In this article, Greeley’s Chief Credentialing Officer Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, offers advice and guidance for physician groups, hospitals,...
Accountability, Consistency, and Adaptability Create a Culture of Excellence See how Greeley’s CredenceSM medical staff outsourcing solution helped a...
5/3/2018 - This is an essential overview meant to orient hospital and system Boards, MEC members, and physician leaders...
Hospital system CFOs and revenue cycle directors aiming to improve financial performance can find untapped revenue in an unexpected...
Interested in exploring whether outsourcing medical staff operations is an option for one, some, or all of your medical...
A well-structured, adaptable medical staff services department (MSSD) can make a real difference in today’s changing healthcare landscape. Mergers...
In this new article published in Becker’s Hospital Review, Amy Niehaus presents three areas CFOs and Revenue Cycle professionals...
11/16/2017 - This webinar will discuss how credentialing, privileging, and enrollment practices affect financial performance, and will identify three...
9/21/2017 - A timely look at the compliance and risk side of credentialing. What is negligent credentialing and where/when...
As someone who manages or oversees provider credentialing and payer enrollment for your hospital or healthcare organization, you understand...
11/9/2016 - During this one-hour, recorded webinar program, Credentialing Advancements in a New Delivery Era, Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS,...
There are several reasons why a commercial payer, such as a managed care organization or health plan, may consider...
There are several reasons why a commercial payer, such as a managed care organization or health plan, may consider...
The Greeley Company has served administrative and clinical teams in more than 700 healthcare organizations nationwide within the past...
Multifaceted Engagement Leads to Credentialing, Privileging, and Bylaws Improvements The Chief Executive Officer/General Counsel and Credentials Chair of a...
Customized Core Privileging Produces Compliant, Effective Privileging System During a July 2014 Joint Commission survey, one of CHRISTUS Santa...
Historically, the medical staff services department (MSSD) has operated behind the scenes in healthcare organizations, with few hospital workers...
In today’s challenging healthcare environment, certain influencers intensify the need for the routine use of temporary privileges and/or the...
After performing some random credentialing file reviews, a multi-entity health system of 200+ beds that is part of a larger...
A 330-bed Midwestern acute care hospital had experienced many of The Greeley Company’s services, including onsite consulting, core privileging assistance,...
A large healthcare system recognized that the manner in which its credentialing activities are currently being carried out across...
A 360-bed tertiary care facility and teaching hospital requested Greeley’s expertise and assistance with a privileging turf battle—specifically peripheral vascular...
With the rapid evolution of new technology, the declining reimbursement for physicians and hospitals, and the necessity to continually...
Many healthcare organizations continue to struggle with which practitioners should—or must—be privileged via the medical staff process. This is not...
The accelerating exodus of physicians from hospitals today creates a challenge for most medical staffs: what to do with...
When we think about the essential elements of a truly effective medical staff services department or credentialing office, we...
Hospitals and health systems regularly outsource non-core functions to specialty service companies to increase service levels, enhance quality, and...
Prior to the arrival of The Greeley Company on site, this client faced significant challenges in its credentialing department. The issues...
The purpose of the credentialing and privileging function and the responsibilities of the medical staff services department within a...
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Data integrity is critical for the credentialing department to appropriately manage the initial application process, timeliness of verifications, recredentialing...
Delegation is a formal process by which an organization gives another entity the authority to perform certain functions on...
At leading hospitals all across the country, where quality patient care is of the utmost concern, administrators often struggle...
As more practitioners and newly-minted medical school graduates seek hospital-based employment, the need for quality credentialing grows. On top...
If you are still using “laundry list” privileging as opposed to core privileging, you are likely struggling to perform...
If you are still using “laundry list” privileging as opposed to core privileging, you are likely struggling to perform...
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ATTENTION In-House Counsel and MSPs: Do these negligent credentialing scenarios sound familiar?
According to a 2016 survey, as many as 58 percent of physicians in the United States are employed by...
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January is a time when many of us reflect on the happenings of the previous year and will set...
As hospitals form more expansive networks, small inefficiencies in individual credentialing processes compound and become increasingly disruptive at the...
Medical staff services departments might need interim staffing assistance at any point for a variety of reasons.
Dan Nielsen, former healthcare executive turned speaker and author, conducted several enlightening interviews at the 2016 Becker’s Hospital Review...
The Greeley Company is looking forward to participating in the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) 40th Educational Conference...
The number of employed practitioners at your hospital is increasing. Provider enrollment with the managed care payers is time-consuming...
“Stop the line” is a very familiar term to me, through my years of experience in the hospital setting....
My colleagues from The Greeley Company and I hope that you’re enjoying this holiday season and feeling energized for...
A little over a week ago, I had the “NAMSS experience.” This year’s conference theme was about embracing change.
How to Manage Temporary Privileges to Mitigate Risk and Protect Patients Thursday
The Chief Executive Officer/General Counsel and Credentials Chair of a 25-bed, physician-owned surgical hospital engaged The Greeley Company about...
Recent public statements by CMS representatives have raised questions about the mechanism a hospital should use to authorize/approve temporary...
Historically, the medical staff services department has operated behind the scenes in healthcare organizations,
After performing some random credentialing file reviews, a multi-entity health system of 200+ beds that is part of a...
The Greeley Company’s Chief Credentialing Officer, Sally Pelletier, was recently interviewed for the following story on physician imposters in...
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