Limit liability by implementing best practices for physician hearings
Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, May 1, 2008
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Hearings to terminate a physician’s medical staff membership are unpleasant for everyone involved. The process is time-consuming and expensive, the situation may cause discord among the members of the medical staff—or between the medical staff and the hospital—and physician members of the hearing panel may resent the imposition on their time. The physician who is the subject of the hearing would almost certainly prefer not to have to defend his or her right to continued membership on the medical staff. For all these reasons, hospitals usually exert considerable effort to avoid hearings. Even so, sometimes there is no choice.
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