The Credentialing Solution
Everything Medical Staff Leaders and Medical Services Professionals Need to Know about Credentialing and Privileging
Manage today’s most difficult Credentialing and Privileging issues
This event will provide credentialing committee members, medical staff leaders, and medical services professionals with the skills and knowledge necessary to design a credentialing and privileging program that protects patients, is fair to physicians and clinicians, and complies with accreditation and regulatory requirements.
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HOW TO REGISTER
Call 800.807.9819 to register your credentialing committee members or learn more information about upcoming events, team pricing, and other special offers, as well as hotel and other information.
By attending this program, you will learn:
Greeley Credentialing Faculty

JOSEPH D. COOPER, MD
Dr. Cooper is a senior consultant with The Greeley Company and a practicing board-certified ophthalmologist, based in Ohio.

SALLY J. PELLETIER, CPMSM, CPCS
Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, is Chief Credentialing Officer with The Greeley Company. She brings over two decades of credentialing and privileging experience to her work with healthcare organizations nationwide.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Organizations that send a team consisting of the following benefit the most from this program:
Call 800.807.9819 to register today!
AGENDA
7 – 8 AM:
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8 AM – 12:30 PM
Education Session
Principles of Effective Credentialing and Privileging - Controlling pressure from influential groups or individuals to credential quickly - Dealing with superb clinicians with sub-optimal citizenship - Balancing patient care, physician success, and hospital success - Deciding who must be credentialed and privileged - Going beyond the traditional steps of credentialing - Managing unusual privileging requests - Obtaining the most value from peer references – Matching competency with clinical privileges
Roles and Responsibilities in Credentialing
Landmark Cases Establishing Legal Precedent – A face with many names (e.g., negligent credentialing, corporate negligence, negligent selection) - Doctrine of charitable immunity - Duty to exercise due care - Protection from immunity
Current Legal Cases, Lessons Learned – Grandfathering—friend or foe? - Responding to professional reference requests - Challenges to precautionary suspension
Evolving Credentialing Standards (Initial & Reappointment) – Leading credentialing practices to protect patients, healthcare organizations, and practitioners - Value-added credentialing elements
Applying the “Four Steps” to a Physician Applicant – The good, the bad, and the ugly in bylaws statements – An exercise in red flag management using the Four Steps of Credentialing
12:30 PM
Adjourn
4 PM
EVENING NETWORKING RECEPTION
Spouses, partners and families welcome!
7 – 8 AM:
Breakfast
7 – 7:45 AM:
Optional Session
Controversies in Board Certification: Maintenance of Certification, Alternative Certifying Boards, and the Link Between Board Certification and Quality
8 AM – 12:30 PM:
Education Session
The Greeley Pyramid - Keys to achieving great physician performance & accountability
APP Conundrum: How to manage their expanding role - Addressing the expanding roles or scope creep in a nontraditional training environment - Determining organizational culture - Liability carrier considerations – Policy considerations - Privileging—Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
How To Create Privileging Criteria from A To Z: New privileges, technology, services, specialties, expanding scopes of practice - Case studies plus 8 steps to successfully manage requests for new services and new technology
How to Manage Temporary Privileges to Mitigate Risk and Protect Patients - Defining patient, community, and hospital need - What can be done to reduce risk and protect patients? - Where do locum tenens fit in this picture?
Employed Physicians: Who is Responsible—Management or the Medical Staff? - Is it one size fits all? – Case studies: What went wrong? & who is responsible for addressing behavior and citizenship issues and clinical competency issues? - NPDB reporting: How to avoid physician employment misadventures
Credentialing Solutions for Clinical Integration and Physician Employment - Decreasing duplication – Increasing efficiency - Increasing physician and staff satisfaction
12:30 PM
Adjourn
7 – 8 AM:
Breakfast
8 AM – 12:00 PM:
Education Session
Performance Monitoring to Cover All the Bases – Accreditation requirements - Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) - Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE)
Potpourri of Competency Assessment Challenges Due to Low- and No-Volume - Lack of inpatient activity - “Just in case” coverage - Single practitioners in a specialty - No current clinical activity - The increasingly narrow practice
The Aging Physician - Strategies to protect patients and support the practitioner - Aging is not for sissies – Analogies with medicine - Accreditation requirements - Policy considerations
12 PM
Adjourn
Agenda is subject to change
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We currently offer the following Programs throughout the year:
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
The Credentialing Solution event offers CME/ CE credits through several organizations:
Client Testimonial
“Our credentialing process has significantly improved since we started sending our credentialing committee members to Greeley events. Our credentialing committee is able to apply principled decisions to the credentialing process. They recognize when they have deviated from a principled credentialing process and are able to perform an analysis of the problem to determine an appropriate solution and apply it”
Anonymous General Counsel from a 300-bed hospital in Maryland
EVENT REGISTRATION FEES AND POLICIES
The registration fee is $1,845 per attendee and includes: