Q&A: Do CMS and Joint Commission standards ever vary?
Credentialing & Verification Update, October 7, 2008
Yes. One example of a topic where Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaide Services (CMS) standards vary is the privileging of teleradiologists. CMS standards require hospitals to have a method for privileging teleradiologists, but the Joint Commission's standards do not. To remain in compliance with both standards the best practice is, in this case, to privilege teleradiologists.
Source: Ready, Set, Credential!, Second Edition, by Nancy C. Lian, CPMSM, CPCS. HCPro, Inc., 2008.
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