Developments in Negligent Credentialing and Strategies for Limiting Liability

This presentation covers: 

• what a plaintiff must establish in order to succeed in a negligent credentialing case; 
• recent cases and their impact on a hospital’s duty to protect patients; 
• Joint Commission standards on performance monitoring; 
• how to successfully defend against negligent credentialing actions; 
• the importance of establishing and uniformly applying credentialing criteria; 
• the impact of the state’s peer review confidentiality statute; and
• how to maximize peer review protections as applied to physician profiling and pay-for-performance information.