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Medical Staff Coordinator

Reports to: Manager, Medical Affairs and Professional Credentialing


APPLY ONLINE AT: WWW.DANA-FARBER.ORG

DESCRIPTION OF BASIC DUTIES

Position Summary:

Actively participates in the development, coordination, evaluation and execution all aspects of the credentialing and provider enrollment procedures, policies and Medical Staff Bylaws and Rules and Regulations as they relate to the Institute’s medical staff, allied health providers, and other licensed independent practitioners.   Ensures consistent compliance with The Joint Commission (TJC) Standards, Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine (BORM) Regulations, National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) standards, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) standards, other applicable standards and regulations, Medical Staff Bylaws and Institute policies and procedures as they apply to medical Staff Services.

Major Responsibilities

Regulatory Agencies and Accreditation Standards: Appropriately interprets and executes procedures that ensure continuous and consistent compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards pertaining to medical staff services and provider enrollment, such as, but not limited to, TJC, BORM, NCQA, CMS, Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA).
1.     Medical Staff Bylaws: Participates in monitoring standards and regulations to ensure continuous compliance and makes recommendations for revision of applicable Institute policies and procedures including, but not limited to, the Medical Staff Bylaws and Rules and Regulations. Coordinates and appropriately executes the Medical Staff Bylaws, Rules and Regulations and Institute policies and procedures.    Responsible for assisting others with a need to know with correctly interpreting same.

2.     Initial and recredentialing a processes: Administers and supports initial and recredentialing processes for all DFCI licensed independent practitioners. This process includes:

a.     Ensuring full compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, bylaws, rules and regulations, accreditation standards and regulations for the processing of applications for initial credentialing and recredentialing.
b.     Ensuring all applications and requests for privileges are processed according to peer review policies and procedures.
c.     Ensures timely, efficient and complete review through the appropriate peer review committees of all credentialing applications and requests for privileges;



3.     Resource: Serves as a resource to the Medical Staff. This includes serving as an knowledgeable and reliable resource on all aspects of credentialing and medical staff governance, bylaws, rules and regulations, policies, procedures, accreditation standards and regulations as they apply to medical staff services.

4.     Managed Care Enrollment: Ensures timely and efficient compliance with managed care credentialing delegation agreements by assuring compliance with National Committee on Quality Assurance standards and other relevant regulations. Represents the Institute in all provider enrollment delegation agreements and as needed for contract negotiations. Plans and prepares credentialing files for presentation to managed care representatives during audits that occur at least annually for each plan. Ensures efficient, accurate and timely delivery of all information required by managed care companies to ensure continuous enrollment of providers. Works closely with the Director of Managed Care.

5.     Medical Staff Appointment Verification: Ensures timely and correct responses are sent to external entities authorized to request verification of appointment, privileges, credentials and competence of licensed practitioners who were previously or are currently affiliated with the Institute.

6.     Medical Staff Committee Support: Ensures all aspects of medical staff committee meetings are appropriate, efficient and timely. Committees may include but are not limited to Credentials and Medical Staff Executive Committees. Provides support of meetings through such activities as preparing agendas, effective and appropriate presentation of agenda items, serves as an information resource to committee members and chairmen for all matters involving the committee and medical staff services. Responsible for drafting clear, accurate and complete minutes and ensuring timely approval of minutes. Ensures timely reports of the committee are forwarded to superior committees or boards as required. Ensures a complete and well organized library of all documents pertaining to assigned medical staff committees. Coordinates logistics of meetings.

7.     Risk Management Foundation Insurance Representative:   Ensures timely, efficient and appropriate enrollment and maintenance of eligible practitioners in the Risk Management Foundation CRICO insurance program. Serves as liaison for the medical staff in all aspects of the program and serves as a resource to those with a need to know concerning CRICO enrollment. .

8.     Fellows’ Moonlighting Program: Supports and ensures effective operation of the fellows’ moonlighting extension program . Ensures compliance with all applicable policies and procedures regarding the program.


9.     Actively participates in development and revision of Medical Affairs and Professional Credentialing department policies and procedures such as, but not limited to, credentialing, provider enrollment, medical staff bylaws, medical staff policies and procedures.

10.     Massachusetts Licensing Boards:   Supports all aspects of licensed independent practitioner licensure including acting as the Institute liaison to the various Boards of licensure for issues pertaining to Institute licensed independent practitioners. Serves as resource to licensed independent practitioners who are or plan to become affiliated with the Institute in all matters concerning application for and maintenance of professional licensure. Provides support to Institute Risk Manager and Legal Counsel in all matters requiring reports to regulatory agencies concerning institute licensed independent practitioners.

11.     Security: Actively promotes and enforces Institute, Medical Staff and departmental policies and procedures for the protection of and maintenance of all credentialing and peer review protected materials including documents, systems, equipment or other media required for the operation of the department. Immediately reports any breach in the confidentiality to Manager or Institute leader in the manager’s absence.


COMPETENCIES

Accountability: Accepts personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work. Can be relied upon to achieve excellent results with minimal oversight.

Adaptability and flexibility: Adapts easily to changing regulations, accreditation standards, conditions and work responsibilities. Adapts approach, goals and methods to achieve successful solutions and results in dynamic situations.

Advocacy: Supports, understands, accepts and commits to support goals and objectives of department and institute.

Development and Continual Learning: Demonstrates an ongoing commitment to learning and self-improvement in medical staff services.

Relationship Building: Build constructive working relationships characterized by acceptance, cooperation and mutual regard.

Results Orientation & Initiative: Focus on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Identifies what needs to be done and proactively takes appropriate action. Gets the job done.

Tact and Diplomacy: Responds to difficult, stressful or sensitive interpersonal situations in ways that reduce or minimize potential conflict and maintains good working relationships among internal and external customers.

KNOWLEDGE OR SKILLS REQUIRED

•     Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
•     Three years experience in provider credentialing, medical staff services, provider credentialing
•     Certified Provider Credentialing Specialist or Certified Medical Staff Coordinator (CMSC) certificate preferred
•     Knowledge of applicable accreditation standards state and federal regulations,
•     Able to recognize and effectively maintain the confidentiality of all sensitive information
•     Excellent organizational, writing and communication skills
•     Excellent computer skills – Microsoft Word, , Excel; understands database concepts and has knowledge medical staff credentialing systems


CONTACTS WITH OTHERS

A.     Persons outside the department:
•     Medical Staff and Institute Leadership Board of Trustee members
•     Medical Staff
•     Hospital staff

B.     Persons outside the institute
•      Colleagues at other institutions
•     Academic institutions
•     Risk Management Foundation
•     Professional colleagues such as MAMSS, NAMSS
•     Accreditation organizations
•     Regulatory agencies
•     Managed care organizations


EQUIPMENT USED

Desktop computer, telephone, facsimile machine, scanner, photocopier, file cabinets.

PHYSICAL EFFORTS

Primarily office environment: long periods of sitting; some walking while transporting credentialing files and committee documents; filing.

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 King Arthur and the "roots of troubles"

The traditional treatment of women in the Arthurian saga is interesting to note in its severity. Guinevere is an adulteress, Morgan Le Fay is a witch, Morgause is an incestuous schemer, and the Lady of the Lake is the leader of a terrible, backward pagan religion. This is, of course, the treatment that has been handed down to us from the medieval writers who gave us the Christian infusion that spawned the story of the Holy Grail. ffxi gil

¡¡¡¡But if we go back to the historical writers¡ª¡ªthe writers who were treating Arthur as a historical character, not a target for pious retribution or moral sermonizing; we find that women do, more or less, have quite an important role to play in the overall health and well-being of Arthur the King.

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¡¡¡¡ maple story mesos,Arthur's queen didn't even have a name in the earliest of stories. She was simply the queen. But she didn't, as so many modern stories tell us, have a part in the downfall of the kingdom. Even Geoffrey of Monmouth, in the happier parts of his story, has Arthur and Ganhumara (his name for the queen) holding court in a great castle in a great city called the City of the Legions. (Geoffrey later gives Guinevere a bad name, but she is all that glitters when the story opens.)

¡¡¡¡Also showered with the light of good in earlier stories is Morgan Le Fay. In the earliest of the Cornwall stories, Morgan is the Queen of Lyonesse, where Arthur is taken after his final battle. Morgan is the leader of a group of healers, all women, who will undoubtedly heal Arthur. It is perhaps out of this part of the story that William of Malmesbury crafted his vision that Arthur would come again. (William, you will remember, is the first one to mention that Arthur's grave has not been found; even though he says nothing more, he gives a strong hint that the Once and Future King part of the legend has begun.) wow gold

¡¡¡¡The Lady of the Lake as well fares rather better in the older stories. She it was who gave Arthur his first sword. She it is who is guardian of the old ways, the ways from which comes much of the magic of the original Arthurian stories. The Christian writers wanted to make Arthur a Christian king, and they didn't want any other religions getting in the way of this. Naturally, they made the Lady of the Lake a questionable character solely because of her "religious" ways.

¡¡¡¡The question then becomes one of why. Why do the women come off so bad in medieval stories? What happened to make the writers change their image of people who were so vital to the story? The answer probably lies in the spiritual realm and its resulting scriptures. The same writers who were reading the Bible and discovering that Eve was responsible for all the world's problems probably thought that they should blame Guinevere for all of Arthur's problems. Why did Arthur have a bastard son in the first place? wow gold, Because the scheming Morgause tricked him into it. Why did Morgan Le Fay hate Arthur so? Because she was jealous of the magic wielded by Merlin, Arthur's advisor. Why was the Lady of the Lake suddenly to be reviled, not revered? Because she was the head of a religion that medieval writers didn't understand or want to understand. The teachings of the Bible were such that one religion was possible (in the minds of these writers);  anything else was unacceptable. (It must be said here that Arthur, Lancelot, and all the rest of the male characters take quite a beating at the hands of the medievalists as well. The whole story becomes a morality play from which only Galahad, the purse and chaste, emerges unscathed. Arthur and Lancelot, the perfect king and the perfect knight, are undone by their shared imperfect morality.)

¡¡¡¡ffxi gil, The result is that in the modern tales,  women are still pretty much blamed for Arthur's troubles. Arthur's dallying with Morgause has come to be seen as something akin to the Adam and Eve story. Lancelot's love for the queen has come to be seen as equal in its devastation to the queen's own adulterous actions (that is to say, it's the woman's fault). Morgan Le Fay is reviled as a witch who wants nothing more than to ruin the kingdom of the wonderful Arthur. And the Lady of the Lake recedes ever further into the background. (Some traditions hold that she is Nimue, whose claim to "fame" is that she enchants Merlin into submission and takes him from Arthur when Arthur needs him most.)

¡¡¡¡If you want to role-play in Arthur's world, you'd better choose a male character. At least people will feel sorry for you. aion gold

 
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One day the old witch happened to want a little boy, so she threw her ball in the direction of the hunters' huts. A child was standing outside, shooting at a mark with his bow and arrows, but the moment he saw the ball, which was made of glass whose blues and greens and whites, all frosted over, kept changing one into the other, he flung down his bow, and stooped to pick the ball up. But as he did so it began to roll very gently downhill. The boy could not let it roll away, when it was so close to him, so he gave chase. The ball seemed always within his grasp, yet he could never catch it; it went quicker and quicker, and the boy grew more and more excited. That time he almost touched it--no, he missed it by a hair's breadth! Now, surely, if he gave a spring he could get in front of it! He sprang forward, tripped and fell, and found himself in the witch's house!
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'Welcome! welcome! grandson!' said she; 'get up and rest yourself, for you have had a long walk, and I am sure you must be tired!' So the boy sat down, and ate some food which she gave him in a bowl. It was quite different from anything he had tasted before, and he thought it was delicious. When he had eaten up every bit, the witch asked him if he had ever fasted.

'Lie down on those buffalo skins by the door of the hut,' answered she; and the boy lay down, and the squirrels and little bears and the birds came and talked to him.
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'Get up, my grandson, you have fasted long enough. Have the good spirits visited you, and granted you the strength and wisdom that you desire?'

So the boy lay down again on the buffalo skins, and fasted for ten days, and at the end of that time he turned his face to the wall, and fasted for twenty days longer. At length the witch called to him, and said:

'Come and eat something, my grandson.' At the sound of her voice the boy got up and ate the food she gave him. When he had finished every scrap she spoke as before: 'Tell me, my grandson, have not the good spirits visited you all these many days that you have fasted?'
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'Yes, grandmother,' answered the boy, 'they have all come, and have given me their gifts.'
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This pleased the old woman so much that she brought him another basin of food, and while he was eating it she talked to him, and this is what she said: 'Far away, on the other side of the great river, is the home of the Bad One. In his house is much gold, and what is more precious even than the gold, a little bridge, which lengthens out when the Bad One waves his hand, so that there is no river or sea that he cannot cross. Now I want that bridge and some of the gold for myself, and that is the reason that I have stolen so many boys by means of my ball. I have tried to teach them how to gain the gifts of the good spirits, but none of them would fast long enough, and at last I had to send them away to perform simple, easy little tasks. But you have been strong and faithful, and you can do this thing if you listen to what I tell you! When you reach the river tie this ball to your foot, and it will take you across--you cannot manage it in any other way. But do not be afraid; trust to the ball, and you will be quite safe!'

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¡°Steve!!¡± Startled, he turned to look at her.
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Steve locked his gaze on Miss White with adolescent adoration, as she began to go over the test results for the seventh grade.

¡°You all did pretty well,¡± she told the class, ¡°except for one boy, and it breaks my heart to tell you this, but...¡± She hesitated, pinning Steve to his seat with a sharp stare, her eyes searching his face.

¡°...The smartest boy in the seventh grade is failing my class!¡±

She just stared at Steve, as the class spun around for a good look. Steve dropped his eyes and carefully examined his fingertips.

After that, it was war!! Steve still wouldn¡¯t do his homework. Even as the punishments became more severe, he remained stubborn.
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¡°Just try it! ONE WEEK!¡± He was unmoved.

¡°You¡¯re smart enough! You¡¯ll see a change!¡± Nothing fazed him.

¡°Give yourself a chance! Don¡¯t give up on your life!¡± Nothing.

¡°Steve! Please! I care about you!¡±
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Steve went home from school, thoughtful, that afternoon. Walking into the house, he took one look around. Both parents were passed out, in various stages of undress, and the stench was overpowering! He, quickly, gathered up his camping gear, a jar of peanut butter, a loaf of bread, a bottle of water, and this time...his schoolbooks. Grim faced and determined, he headed for the woods.
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Miss White, immediately, gave a quiz on the weekend homework. Steve hurried through the test, and was the first to hand in his paper. With a look of surprise, Miss White took his paper. Obviously puzzled, she began to look it over. Steve walked back to his desk, his heart pounding within his chest. As he sat down, he couldn¡¯t resist another look at the lovely woman.
Miss White¡¯s face was in total shock! She glanced up at Steve, then down, then up.

Suddenly, her face broke into a radiant smile. The smartest boy in the seventh grade had just passed his first test!

From that moment nothing was the same for Steve. Life at home remained the same, but life still changed. He discovered that not only could he learn, but he was good at it!
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After high-school Steve enlisted in the Navy, and he had a successful military career. During that time, he met the love of his life, he raised a family, and he graduated from college Magna Cum Laude. During his Naval career, he inspired many young people, who without him, might not have believed in themselves. Steve began a second career after the Navy, and he continues to inspire others, as an adjunct professor in a nearby college Miss White left a great legacy. She saved one boy who has changed many lives.

You see, it¡¯s simple, really. A change took place within the heart of one boy, all because of one teacher, who cared.

 

 
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