Question of the week: Should the medical staff office track the dates of practitioners’ DEA certificates?
Credentialing & Verification Update, February 25, 2009
Yes. If the practitioner fails to renew his or her Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) certificates, he or she can no longer administer or write prescriptions for narcotics. MSPs can implement a pharmaceutical suspension program which notifies the department chair and the pharmacy of the practitioner’s restrictions. For anesthesiologists, however, this would be a full suspension and would fall under the automatic suspension process outlined in your hearing and appeal policy.
The previous text is an excerpt from the HCPro, Inc., book The Credentialing Coordinator’s Handbook, by Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS.
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