In This Presentation:
- Hospital Governing Board
- Do physicians have to serve on boards?
- How must board consult with the organized medical staff if physicians are not on the board?
- Hospital Medical Staff – Membership
- What practitioners can be appointed as members of the medical staff?
- Must membership be expanded if permitted under state law?
- Hospital Medical Staff – Separate or Unified?
- Overview of options to create a single, unified and integrated medical staff in a multi-hospital system.
- How must the Board interact with staff at each hospital?
- What is the medical staff voting process and who can vote?
- Must members in a unified medical staff have the option to create a separate medical staff?
- What impact on bylaws?
- What if the staffs serve different patient populations and have other unique circumstances?
- Ordering Hospital Outpatient Services
- Who can order?
- Excerpt from Hospital Governing Board:
- Background
- On May 16, 2012, CMS published a final rule that allowed one governing board to oversee multiple hospitals in a multi-hospital system.
- If there is one board but there are separately certified hospitals, each must demonstrate compliance with the Medicare CoPs.
- Rule also required that a medical staff member or members from at least one of the hospitals be included on the board.
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