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Tip of the Week: Reappointing low-volume practitioners

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, April 5, 2007

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When a practitioner in your hospital no longer engages in significant clinical activity, the reappointment process can be a challenge. How do you know the physician is competent? How do you check his or her qualifications?

The following is a list of general qualifications you can use as a good starting point:

• Licensure
• Malpractice history
• Disciplinary actions taken by other agencies and healthcare organizations
• Databank information
• Criminal history
• Medicaid and Medicare sanctions
• General adherence to professional ethics and professional standards

Be aware that measuring these qualifications alone are not enough to determine current competence and privileges, however. Insisting on at least one or two letters of recommendation from physicians on your medical staff to whom the physician applicant refers patients can give you additional evidence of the physician's competence.

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