Ask the expert: What is the difference between holding privileges and holding medical staff membership?
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, October 2, 2008
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Clinical privileging allows the medical staff and the hospital’s governing board to outline the scope of practice permitted to a practitioner. Medical staff membership, on the other hand, allows access to the governance of the medical staff: the right to vote, serve on committees, and hold office, as well as full hearing and appeal rights. Membership does not define what an individual is allowed to do clinically.
This week’s answer is from Ready, Set, Credential!: Questions, Games, and Strategies to Train Your Staff, Second Edition, by Nancy C. Lian, CPMSM, CPCS.
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