HCPro.com: Medical Staff Affairs Monthly

William Cors, MD, MMM, CMSL, Vice President, Medical Staff Services, uses this monthly e-zine to share his observations of emerging challenges and evolving best practices; information about political, regulatory, and legal issues affecting hospitals and their medical staffs; and to identify resources that may prove helpful to medical staff leaders.

June 11, 2008 (Volume 7, Issue 6)

The Kadlec reversal
Much has been written about the recent reversal in the Kadlec case. This landmark court ruling initially required hospitals to disclose to another facility evidence of a prior staff member’s impairment, but now that has been overturned. On May 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that a healthcare facility has no duty to disclose such information to another hospital. A hospital may choose to respond to a request for credentialing data with neutral information. However, the hospital cannot disclose misleading information. In essence, a “name, rank, and serial number” letter, if factually correct, offers some protection, at least in Louisiana. There is great concern as to what message this sends out to healthcare facilities regarding the exchange of information between facilities.

Other recently-published articles from Medical Staff Affairs Monthly:

How do you spell A-L-I-G-N-M-E-N-T? Let me count the ways

The culture of safety: From a priority to a core value

Behavior and Patient Safety-Perfect Together?

New medical staff models...let me count the ways

The Kadlec reversal

Welcome to Never Land

How to sink a ship

Certified Medical Staff Leader (CMSL)

I fought the law...and the law won?

Where has all the money gone? Who knows where the time goes?

Going, going, gone...

Fiduciary failure: Aberration or standard operating procedure?

MS-DRGs: Breakthrough or another misaligned incentive?

A Summer Slow-down in Healthcare - Not this Year!

Growing need for physician retaining programs

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