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Managing temporary and locum tenens privileges
Healthcare organizations facing staffing shortages may resort to granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians. However, without full credentials verification of those physicians, credentialing and privileging professionals may clinically and legally endanger patients and healthcare organizations.
At the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, speaker Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, will address this and several other hot-button credentialing and privileging issues throughout the two-day seminar, to be held March 12?13. Credentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider recently sat down with Pelletier to ask her about the risks associated with temporary and locum tenens privileges.
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