Negligent Credentialing Developments: Impact of Recent Cases and New Joint Commission Medical Staff Standards

Topics include:

• What a plaintiff must establish in order to succeed in a negligent credentialing case 
• Review of recent cases and their impact on a hospital’s duty to protect patients 
• Overview and impact of the Joint Commission Medical Staff Standards on negligent credentialing arguments 
• How to successfully defend against these actions 
• The importance of establishing and uniformly applying credentialing criteria as well as documenting grounds for exceptions to minimize negligent credentialing claims 
• What impact your state’s peer review confidentiality statute has on the hospital’s ability to defend against these lawsuits 
• How to maximize your peer review protections as applied to physician profiling and P4P information