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While speaking to a fellow Credentialer today, she mentioned the ‘helpers’ they sometime get when doing their work. I told her what I felt about that. “I don’t like people touching my things!”
I don’t know the reason, maybe it’s
1) A deep seated feeling of accomplishment I get, when I finish credentialing a physician, OR
2) Because I am a giant anal retentive control freak that does not trust anyone else to do things as good as I do.
OK, I am the second one. While I appreciate the help, and sometimes need it, I still don’t want you touching my things.
No one does it like me. Dot the I’s cross the t’s, ask the questions I would ask.
As a matter of fact, I am such a freak about things that I trained EVERYONE that came into our department. Because I wanted everyone to do the things the way I wanted it. It was a small thing that I had to train everyone who stepped foot on our department. I like things the way I like them. See control freak.
I thought it was just me, but have found there is a certain kinship with us all. We have to juggle so much, and are afraid we will miss something so important. That I have heard ‘I don’t want you touching my things’
I am sure there is a support group I can join.
But not yet!
Ronda
What is recredentialing you may ask. Recredentialing (or Credentials Reverification if you prefer) is the process of credentialing AFTER the initial credentialing was done. Depending on your own by-laws, you may need to recredential every year or every 2 years or even more. Basically you want to check up on your physician and make sure everything is still A-Ok.
So what kind of things are you looking for this time around? Good question!!
OK, so, you need to see if your Dr (let’s call him Dr. Perfect for arguments sake) has obtained privileges anywhere since he credentialed originally with you. Make sure he is still in good standing at any place he still has privileges at. There could possibly be new disciplinary actions against him, though, I hardly doubt that is the case for Dr. Perfect….
Second, you are going to have to recheck all of his active licenses with the licensing boards. You will also want to make sure that the license copies you have on file are still current. If anything has expired since the initial credential you will have to ask Dr Perfect for current copies, but, of course he won’t mind because, well, he’s perfect!
Do you keep letters of reference? If so, you probably will want to get current ones at this time.
Fun stuff, yes? No, not really, but a necessary evil any ways. If your Dr isn’t perfect, and most of them aren’t though some are close, he will probably grumble a little at having to go through it all again. The good news is, it won’t be nearly as time consuming and difficult this time around.
So, close your eyes, grit your teeth, and dive in. You will feel so much better when it’s all over with!
Michelle
Time Gaps
My rule of thumb is “anytime that a person can spend in prison” is a time gap. 30 days is my general ‘must know’ rule; but I know that some states need to have an accounting of ALL time from College to present.
This gets tricky,
14 Days? Could be a vacation.
21 Days? Family Emergency.
30 days? I always go to ‘Were they in jail? Where have they been?’
30 days is how long they could have been suspended from the hospital. And if they were, why were they suspended. I hear my mothers voice in my head, when I had done something wrong. “WHAT DID YOU DO?” It always stopped me cold, even if I didn’t do anything wrong. Now it’s all I hear when I find any gaps for 30 days or more.
Ronda
Vague curriculum vitae (CV) Time lines that could mean anything.
For example, CV states residency years 1978 – 1981. I personally hate CV’s that only have years. This is misleading; the provider could have started Residency training in December of 1978, and finished January 1981. Not only is the provider off track but clearly short of training.
This runs true with work experience as well. Even if the Physician gives months and years there is still lots of time that would be unaccounted for.
Ronda
