Privileging

This is a sample core privilege form for dermatology. The Credentialing Resource Center website houses over 100 criteria-based core privilege forms for physicians and advanced practice professionals.

Dermatologists are physicians who specialize in evaluating and managing adults and children with benign and malignant conditions and disorders of the skin, hair, nails, and adjacent mucous membranes, according to the American Board of Dermatology (ABD).

As influential physicians increasingly recognize the value of their non-physician partners, the presence and roles of APPs in hospitals are undergoing tremendous growth. Furthermore, today’s APPs are often eager to expand their knowledge, skill base, and scope of practice, and many disciplines...

Today’s free resource comes from Verify and Comply, Sixth Edition. This book includes credentialing and medical staff standards and regulations for the most popular regulators and accreditors in an easy-to-navigate manual. The free resource outlines the standards for...

This free resource is a sample OPPE form for surgical PAs. MSPs can reference the form when tailoring evaluation materials to the desired expertise of their own advanced practice professionals (APP). The APP’s sponsoring physician, or other person involved in the care of the patients, should...

Practitioners’ scopes of practice are primarily established by the state, rather than the federal, government. Hospitals then determine allowed practice parameters within state boundaries. In other words, if a state has expanded the scope of an advanced practice professional’s (APP) practice,...

Your clinical privilege forms need to be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure they reflect up-to-date criteria requirements and standards for the procedure or specialty in question. For example, a procedure that used to be considered a special, noncore privilege when you developed your forms...

Policy and procedure
Circumstances under which temporary privileges may be granted
Temporary privileges may be granted by the hospital CEO to a practitioner who meets one of the following circumstances and the minimum criteria as defined...