Q&A: Must you query the NPDB on interns, residents, and fellows?
Credentialing & Verification Update, December 30, 2008
No. Healthcare entities are not required to query the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) on interns, residents, or fellows, because they are trainees in a structured program and are not members of the medical staff. If a resident or fellow is granted medical staff privileges to moonlight or work outside the guidelines of his or her training program, the HCQIA requires the hospital to query that individual.
Source: The Credentialing Coordinator's Handbook, by Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS. © 2007, HCPro.
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