CPMSM Study Guide - Credentialing and Privileging Questions With Complete Solutions

Why get accredited? correct answer: 1. assists organizations in monitoring and improving quality of care 2. Deemed status 3. Marketing reasons - shows that expectations for providing safe, quality health care are met 4. may favorably influence liability insurance premiums 5. for a hospital, may be required in order to obtain managed care contracts 6. employers and unions may require for providing healthcare coverage to employees interprets the word "privileges" to mean the duties and prerogatives of each category, and not the clinical privileges to provide patient care, treatment, and services related to each category. correct answer: TJC states that membership categories must include all practitioners who provide a medically related level of care. LIPs and AHPs who are non-physicians and are granted medical staff membership must be included in these categories. correct answer: HFAP the MS bylaws shall describe the organization of the medical staff and include a statement of the duties and privileges of each category of the medical staff to ensure that acceptable standards are met for providing patient care for all diagnostic, medical, surgical and rehabilitative services. correct answer: DNV the MS shall establish, adopt and enforce bylaws, rules, regs,