What is credentialing?
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.
What is privileging?
Privileging is 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.
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