There are two main reasons for this:
- Medical board rules and requirements vary from state to state, making it extremely difficult to hold physician applicants from different parts of the country to a single set of credentialing standards
- Appropriate credentialing and privileging training has been insufficient on the whole, due largely to a lack of appropriate hospital personnel and resources.
The Greeley Company laid out 5 logical steps hospitals can take, however, to prevent potentially devastating credentialing scenarios. Click here to read the 5 tips.
