Associations, certifications, podcasts and peer groups for credentialing and medical staff professionals.
Side-by-side crosswalk of credentialing and medical staff standards from CMS, The Joint Commission, NCQA, DNV and others. Also useful for NAMSS exam study.
Practical guide to case review, OPPE measures and FPPE for peer review coordinators, physician reviewers and committee members.
Training handbook for credentials committee members: their role, FPPE and OPPE, low-volume providers and negligent credentialing risk.
Job manual for MSPs covering credentialing, privileging, reappointment, FPPE and OPPE, with sample forms and policies.
Comprehensive reference for medical staff services departments, from credentialing and privileging to CVOs and managed care. Written with NAMSS exam prep in mind.
Downloadable PDF guide to the CPCS exam: credentialing and privileging, primary source verification, standards and operations.
Downloadable PDF guide to the CPMSM exam, with a 100-question practice exam.
Summaries describe only publicly documented convictions, pleas and findings.
A Dallas-area neurosurgeon whose patients suffered severe injuries; he was convicted in 2017 of injuring an elderly patient and sentenced to life.
He moved from hospital to hospital, and no one passed on the warning.
Scripted series dramatizing the Duntsch case and the colleagues and prosecutor who worked to stop him.
Quiet resignations let the concerns travel with him, unreported.
A Michigan oncologist sentenced in 2015 to 45 years in federal prison for giving patients medically unnecessary chemotherapy and related health care fraud.
Once privileges are granted, peer review is the safeguard.
Investigative account of physician Michael Swango, who was hired by hospital after hospital before pleading guilty in 2000 to murdering patients.
Hired again and again, before his past caught up with him.
Abridged audiobook, narrated by Boyd Gaines.
Investigation of nurse Charles Cullen, who worked at multiple hospitals over 16 years and pleaded guilty to murdering patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Sixteen years, nine hospitals: fired or allowed to resign, and hired again.
Unabridged audiobook, narrated by Will Collyer.
Film adaptation of Graeber’s book, starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.
One colleague’s persistence uncovered what earlier employers had not passed on.
A US-trained surgeon at Bundaberg Hospital in Queensland, Australia. His manslaughter convictions were overturned on appeal; in 2013 he pleaded guilty to fraud for obtaining registration and employment dishonestly.
Restrictions on his US practice did not stop his hiring in Queensland.
Podcast: Sick to Death, The Australian, hosted by Hedley Thomas (2025).
Job board for medical staff services, credentialing and provider enrollment roles.
State and regional associations for local education, networking and peer support.
CPCS®, CPMSM® and CPES certifications: eligibility, exams and recertification.
Help shape this free resource for credentialing professionals. 5 quick questions, anonymous, about 2 minutes.
17 slides. A plain-language overview of hospital credentialing for new staff, providers and committee members.
