Do most hospitals query insurance carriers to obtain an applicant’s malpractice suit history even though this step is not required by The Joint Commission?
A West Palm Beach, Florida, man has been sentenced to prison for posing as a physician as a teenager. Malachi Love-Robinson was 17 years old when he was first caught impersonating a physician at St. Mary’s Medical Center in January 2015, during which time he sat in on at least one gynecology...
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Privileges are the hospital organization’s way of identifying what a practitioner may do clinically at that institution. Obviously, it is important that the right privileges get matched with the right physician. This task sounds simple, but for many organizations, it is the toughest...
The review and approval process for recredentialing applications is typically identical to that for initial applications.
Some information will be reverified, including licensure/certification status, and the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPBD) will be queried again.
