When granting temporary privileges, organizations should have policies that clearly outline their pre-established criteria. Although expediting the process is important, MSPs must ensure that each practitioner’s current clinical competence is verified to protect patient safety and avoid...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 11
Credentialing and privileging have long been keystones of quality care and patient safety. But as healthcare reform drives consolidation, integration, and value-based reimbursement, these perennial functions are taking on new forms, environments, and significance. The following Q&A...
Frequently, emergency and disaster privileges are confused. Emergency privileges are those privileges that the medical staff has granted to existing members to do whatever is necessary (within the scope of each practitioner’s license) to save the life, limb, or organ of a patient. Typically, the...
Development of The Credentialing and Privileging Toolbox is underway! The 2017 title will feature first-class, field-sourced credentialing and privileging resources, along with expert commentary on what makes them so great. Think ...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 11
There may be times when a hospital knows it’s not going to get a physician’s reappointment application processed before his or her privileges expire. This could be for any number of reasons, such as the physician just never got around to completing the application or the person in the medical...
About five years ago, my employer, Allegheny Health Network (AHN), decided to pursue delegated agreements with the big-name insurance companies in our area. AHN, which comprises seven hospitals and four ambulatory surgery centers throughout...
