MULTIDISCIPLINARY CREDENTIALING AND PRIVILEGING - A UNIFIED APPROACH

A health care organization's thoughtful and rigorous credentialing and privileging process is not only required by state and federal regulat ions but is essential for building a quality professional staff. The a ddition of nonphysician providers has challenged organizations to arti culate the appropriate credentialing process for these providers. Furt her, the credentialing process has been burdened by the redundancy cre ated when providers require credentialing and privileging by multiple health care settings and managed care organizations. This paper descri bes a multidisciplinary credentialing and privileging system of the hi ghest standard that minimizes effort and expense for both the provider and the organization.