Defining the role of the MEC and credentials committee in promoting quality care

Privileging disputes, reappointment challenges, and communication lapses can make it difficult to exercise credentialing and privileging best practices. During the webcast, Credentialing and Privileging: Tools to Tackle the Top Physician Leader Responsibilities, Mary Hoppa, MD, MBA, and Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, take on these issues and more, shining a light on the top challenges that test MSPs and physician leaders and providing solutions to promote ongoing credentialing and privileging success.

The speakers address a common source of confusion by defining each department’s role in a key credentialing and privileging process: safeguarding quality care. The responsibilities of the MEC and credentials committee include:

• Develop, recommend, and implement policies and procedures to continuously improve all credentialing and privileging activities
• Recommend criteria for all privileges for each specialty that goes through the medical staff credentialing process (including new technology) after reviewing recommendations from the relevant department chair(s)
• Evaluate credentials files and recommend action on all initial appointments and reappointments after reviewing recommendations from the appropriate department chair
• Recommend action on all requests for privileges after reviewing the recommendation of the department chair
• Reconcile differences between departments regarding criteria for cross-specialty privileges
• Recommend the process for establishing practitioner competency for all newly granted privileges based on recommendations of the department chairs (FPPE)

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Source: Credentialing and Privileging: Tools to Tackle the Top Physician Leader Responsibilities