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Low and No Volume Practitioners:
Changing Practice Patterns Lead to New Credentialing Challenges
Audio CD/MP3
Recorded April 19, 2007

Faculty: Susan Lapenta & Phil Zarone

If your medical staff is like most, you have a growing number of members who have little or no clinical activity in your facility. Given the hospitalist and other related movements (laborist, traumatist etc.), many of these low/no volume practitioners may not have clinical activity at any hospital, centering their practices in their offices. Despite this shift in practice patterns, many low/no volume practitioners continue to apply for reappointment and clinical privileges.

How can your hospital satisfy Joint Commission requirements for appointment and privileges based on an assessment of core competencies when these practitioners never admit or treat patients in your facility? How can you perform the required ongoing and focused professional practice evaluations for the low/no volume practitioner?

These questions are made all the more difficult because many of these practitioners have long been pillars of the medical community. Disenfranchising them seems unreasonable and shortsighted. Is there a way to allow them to continue to contribute to the hospital and medical staff while still meeting Joint Commission and other requirements?

Susan Lapenta and Phil Zarone, partners at Horty, Springer & Mattern, discuss the low/no volume practitioner. Susan and Phil offer practical solutions such as:

What’s in it for you?: The pros and cons of staying connected with the low/no volume practitioner
Establishing threshold criteria for minimum patient contacts
Defraying the cost of recredentialing the low/no volume practitioner
The hunt for information – using reference evaluations to get information about the core competencies of low/no volume practitioners
Obtaining information from other health care facilities and managed care organizations: Are state peer review protection laws an obstacle?
Staff categories without clinical privileges – the wave of the future or a thing of the past?
Existing criteria for appointment (including board certification, no felony convictions and no exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid) – should these apply to staff categories with no clinical privileges?
The difference between Ambulatory Staff and Community Affiliate Staff
The quid pro quo for appointment – satisfying service call needs
Credentialing in an office setting - defining criteria before undertaking the task

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