Credentialing Specialist

Job Summary

You'll provide vital administrative support to the Medical Staff Office, managing efficient credentialing, privileging, and re-credentialing processes, thereby maintaining compliance and supporting quality care.

Responsibilities

• Manage credentialing cycles (applications, verification, files)
• Serve as a resource for Medical Staff Committees (materials, minutes, communication)
• Ensure regulatory compliance, maintain the medical staff database
• Provide assistance to CHI physicians, nurse practitioners, and RN’s, including scheduling all meetings, handling travel arrangements and coordinating all confidential matters
• Maintain physician calendars and distribute meeting notices
• Create and distribute physicians’ monthly call schedules
• Maintain current DEA certificates and state licenses for all providers
• Process applications for state license, DEA, insurance, TPQVO, area hospitals, and insurance plans for new physicians
• Cook up and distribute physicians’ monthly call schedules, including preliminary schedules and final schedules
• Keep running documentation log of all time off taken by physicians, weekdays and weekends worked, and maintain a yearly balance of these days among all physicians

Requirements

• Minimum of five years medical secretarial experience
• Preferred two years as a medical staff coordinator

Where You'll Work

CommonSpirit Memorial is an award-winning, not-for-profit, faith-based health care organization dedicated to the healing ministry of Jesus Christ. Founded by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, we offer a comprehensive continuum of care, from preventative and primary care to acute hospital services specializing in cancer, cardiac, neuroscience, stroke, and orthopedic services.