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NAMSS CE QUIZ:
Questions on The Intersection of Credentialing
and Peer Review
See worksheet on page 30.
1. As a general rule, hospitals and healthcare facilities
must use due care in selecting the physicians
appointed to the medical staff.
a. True
b. False
2. An NPDB query will reveal whether a physician has
ever been the subject of any kind of peer review
proceeding at another facility.
a. True
b. False
7. Generally, a facility may use the information
provided about other facilities’ peer review actions
in considering what actions to take with regard to a
practitioner’s privileges at its own facility.
a. True
b. False
8. There is no need to ask a physician for information
about past peer review proceedings or actions at
another facility.
a. True
3. Facilities face significant risks, including financial
liability and possible sanctions or fines, for failing to
give comprehensive, truthful accounts of their
current and former medical staff members to
credentialing entities.
b. False
a. True
b. False
a. True
b. False
4. Historically, facilities have often been reluctant to
release negative peer review information due to
peer review and other privileges and the possibility
of litigation.
a. True
b. False
5. When informed of peer review proceedings at
another facility, the credentialing facility should, at a
minimum, request all ultimate findings and
conclusions regarding corrective or disciplinary
action taken against the practitioner.
a. True
b. False
6. The fact that another facility has taken an adverse
action will always be independently sufficient to
warrant adverse action at the credentialing facility.
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a. True
b. False
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9. An applicant’s cooperation with an investigation
into peer review proceedings at another hospital is
never a factor to be considered as a part of the
appointment process.
10. The Joint Commission’s standards outline criteria that
must be considered as a part of the credentialing
process, including, among other factors, voluntary
and involuntary termination of medical staff
membership, and voluntary or involuntary limitation,
reduction, or loss of clinical privileges.
a. True
b. False
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Synergy - September/October 2013
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Synergy - September/October 2013
Synergy - September/October 2013
Contents
Editor’s Column
President’s Column
The Intersection of Credentialing and Peer Review: How Much Information Is Enough?
The Medical Staff’s Role in a Provider-Based Facility
Paperless Agenda Versus Less Paper
CMS Grants the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) Deeming Authority
National Organization Seeks to Imp rove Process with NAMSS PASS™
MS 01.01.01 – One Year Later: Did You Make It? Did You Survive?
NAMSS News
Happenings
Consultants Directory
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Synergy - September/October 2013 - 1
Synergy - September/October 2013 - Contents
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Synergy - September/October 2013 - 4
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 5
Synergy - September/October 2013 - Editor’s Column
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 7
Synergy - September/October 2013 - President’s Column
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 9
Synergy - September/October 2013 - The Intersection of Credentialing and Peer Review: How Much Information Is Enough?
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Synergy - September/October 2013 - The Medical Staff’s Role in a Provider-Based Facility
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 17
Synergy - September/October 2013 - Paperless Agenda Versus Less Paper
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 19
Synergy - September/October 2013 - CMS Grants the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) Deeming Authority
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 21
Synergy - September/October 2013 - National Organization Seeks to Imp rove Process with NAMSS PASS™
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 23
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 24
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 25
Synergy - September/October 2013 - MS 01.01.01 – One Year Later: Did You Make It? Did You Survive?
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 27
Synergy - September/October 2013 - NAMSS News
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 29
Synergy - September/October 2013 - 30
Synergy - September/October 2013 - Happenings
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