Ask the expert: If we switch to core privileges, what will happen to the existing privileges of practitioners on staff?

Existing practitioners will maintain their current privileges until implementation of the new core privileging forms. During implementation, each practitioner will be required to request the same privileges he or she currently holds using the new core form for his or her specialty. It is highly unlikely that any practitioner who currently holds clinical privileges would not be grandfathered in with regard to education and training. Going forward, the practitioner would have to meet any maintenance or renewal-of-privilege criteria that are established.

This week’s question and answer are from Core Privileges for Physicians: A Practical Approach to Developing and Implementing Criteria-Based Privileges, Fifth Edition, by Sally J. Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS.