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Guide

Title: Health Care Credentialing: A Guide to Innovative Practices
by Fay A. Rozovsky, Christina W. Giles, Mark A. Kadzielski
List Price: $249.00
ISBN: 0735564825

Description Aspen Publishers' brand new manual, Health Care Credentialing, takes you far beyond the standard review of credentialing concerns, delivering insights into innovative ways to collect, process and assess credentialing information. No matter where you're conducting credentialing, this resource will help you keep pace with the latest ideas and approaches. Health Care Credentialing will help you

Take into account complex laws, regulations, and accreditation standards as they apply to credentialing
Handle disruptive care and clinical competency issues
Access information for evaluating core competencies to be used in credentialing
Stay up-to-date on relevant regulations, statutes, and accreditation standards

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Handbook

Title: The Medical Staff Services Handbook: Fundamentals and Beyond
Author(s): Cindy A. Gassiot, CPMSM, CPCS, Medical Staff Management, Vicki L. Searcy, CPMSM, Searcy Resource Group, LLC, Christina W. Giles, CPMSM, MS, Medical Staff Solutions
ISBN: 0763736945
Price: $89.95 US

Earn up to 17 NAMSS endorsed CEUs by completing the quizzes at the end of the book!
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Book includes free CD-ROM of exhibits and forms!

Whether you are an expert in medical staff services or a student just starting out, this comprehensive guide presents solutions to the most common dilemmas. Endorsed by the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS), The Medical Staff Services Handbook: Fundamentals and Beyond provides a complete overview of the major functions performed in a medical staff services department, with practical advice on:

how to organize and implement the credentialing and privileging process
how to resolve problems related to credentialing and privileging
how to organize and staff the medical staff services department
how the medical staff organization is structured and related documents (bylaws, rules and regulations)
how to organize and support medical staff meetings
laws that apply to medical staff membership and credentialing

Professional Associations:

National Association of Medical Staff Services: www.namss.org
National Association of Healthcare Quality: www.nahq.org
National Association of Risk Managers: www.ashrm.org

Credentialing/Privileging Resources:

The Healthcare Credentialing Supersite: www.credentialinfo.com
Medical Staff Leaders website: www.msleader.com
Joint Commission of Healthcare Organizations: www.jointcommission.org
National Committee of Quality Assurance: www.ncqa.org
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC): www.aaahc.org
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF): www.carf.org
Administrators in Medicine: www.aim.org
Federation of State Medical Boards: www.fsmb.org
Accreditation Council for Graduate Education: www.acgme.org
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education: www.accme.org
Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates: www.ecfmg.org
The Commission/URAC: www.urac.org
Core Privileges -Dept. of the Navy: www.navymedicine.med.navy.mil
DEA: www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov

American Hospital Association: www.aha.org
American Medical Association: www.ama-assn.org
American Hospital Directory: www.ahd.com
American Board of Medical Specialties: www.abms.org
American Osteopathic Association: www.aoa-net.org
Association for Hospital Medical Education: www.ahme.org
American Nurses Credentialing Center: www.nursingworld.org
Association of American Medical Colleges: www.aamc.org

Legal Resources

American Health Lawyers Association: www.healthlawyers.org
Horty, Springer and Mattern, P.C.: www.hortyspringer.com

US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General's List of Excluded Individuals: www.exclusions.oig.hhs.gov
Federal Register: www.access.gpo.gov/nara/
Center for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov