Medical staff relationship counseling: Build trust with legal counsel to boost risk management efforts
Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, June 1, 2009
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Think of the ancient saying “Give and ye shall receive” when responding to affiliation letter requests. If you would be frustrated receiving an affiliation response with only dates of medical staff membership listed, don’t send out your own bare-boned responses.
Although it is reasonable to worry that a practitioner will sue an organization for disclosing too much, there are many safeguards medical staffs can use to avoid this.
“If there is a reason why a disclosing party does not want to provide information [in a letter], then there might be better ways to provide that information in a safe and secure environment,” says Dwight W. Scott Jr., an attorney in the healthcare section of McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, in Houston.
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