POLICY

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Medical credentialing is a process used to evaluate the qualifications and practice history of a provider.

This is a certification process reviewing a provider's completed education, training, residency and licenses.

Privilegingis the specific patient care diagnostic or therapeutic procedures a physician or non-physician practitioner is permitted to perform in a specific facility.  It is based on evaluation of the individual, the medical staff prepares recommendations to grant, deny, continue, revise, discontinue, limit, or revoke privileges, to the governing body.