Sharing Credentialing, Privileging, and Peer Review Information Within Systems

• April 29, 2019

• Avery Schumacher , Epstein Becker & Green PC
• Stephen R. Kleinman , Bricker & Eckler LLP , Columbus, OH

Recent high-profile cases highlight the need for quality credentialing, privileging, and peer review processes. In a time when multi-hospital systems are the norm, consistency in these processes across each hospital in a system is essential for quality care and patient safety. Further, the public views a hospital within a system as part of the larger whole and holds the system accountable for actions of physicians performed at each individual hospital in the system.

ARTICLE TAGS

• Medical Staff Credentialing and Peer Review Practice Group
• Medical Staff, Credentialing, and Peer Review