To assist organizations in improving their credentialing and privileging processes, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has released an updated version of its Credentialing and Privileging Toolkit.
Hospitals must report adverse actions taken against the privileges of a physician or dentist to the National Practitioner Data Bank. They may choose to report actions against the privileges of other healthcare providers, but reporting is not required.
Whatever the reason, a large number of physicians who have low or no volume of clinical care will nevertheless want to reapply for membership and privileges. They may not meet your criteria for current competency for that set of privileges, and therein lies the conundrum: How can an organization...
Think of your hand on a smooth surface. When you’re a department chair evaluating a credentials file, that’s what it should be like, because most applications are smooth and have no red flags.
For organizations moving toward the development of a criteria-based core privileging system, determining whether a certain procedure or privilege is core or special/noncore can be problematic. Core are those procedures or privileges that any well-trained physician within a particular specialty...
Privileges are permissions that have been granted to a physician or other licensed independent practitioner to provide specific patient care services, which may include the ability to admit, treat, manage, and perform procedures. The term “privileging” refers to the process the hospital and...
