The Guide to Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging contains policies and procedures, sample forms and documents for assisting with development of a customized manual for the credentialing and privileging of licensed independent practitioners and allied health professionals.

Use the Guide to Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging templates to review, revise, update or develop a manual for your healthcare organization that is consistent with your practice and with regulatory requirements, including state regulations. This manual is complete with the most current information on AHPs, temporary privileging and telemedicine. It includes criteria for delineation of clinical privileges and privileges for major clinical departments, and contains guidelines and forms for the initial and reappointment requirements. Use this manual to discover what your medical staff must have in place for practitioner performance monitoring and recredentialing competencies.

Every MCN policy, procedure and form is provided in an easy-to-customize Word format. An overview of what is including in this valuable manual includes:

• General Guidelines in the Credentialing and Privileging Process
• Credentialing/Recredentialing Process - Confidentiality
• Peer Review
• Primary Source Verification
• Credential Verification Organizations
• Delineated Clinical Privileges
• Ongoing Monitoring of a Practitioner's Performance
• Privileging of Licensed Independent Practitioners During an Emergency/Disaster
• Telemedicine Services
• Focused Professional Practice Evaluation

... and much more!