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From the CRC Blog: Verification and "contingent" approvals

Credentialing & Verification Update, July 15, 2008

This time of year, medical staff offices may be busy credentialing residents who are in their last few weeks of residency programs. MSPs may face pressure from both eager applicants and hospital administration to credential recent residents as quickly as possible. MSPs must remember, however, that The Joint Commission standard MS.4.10 states: "The hospital collects information regarding each practitioner's current license, training, experience, competency and ability to perform the requested privilege".

Credentialing Resource Center blogger Diane Hendrickson explains: An application cannot be processed until the candidate has completed all training listed in the credentialing file. Sometimes, the medical staff and hospital board may approve residents' applications before they finish their residencies, contingent upon the candidates' successful completion of the residency programs. In these cases, MSPs must remember to re-verify applicants' completion of their residencies. Only then is the credentialing file complete, and the board's recommendation final.

Read Diane's original article on the Credentialing Resource Center Blog.

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