Joint Commission refines requirements for practitioner credentialing, privileging, and evaluation

Editor's Note

The Joint Commission announced on August 14 that accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals will be able to supplement local data with data acquired from Medicare-certified hospitals and critical access hospitals for the purposes of practitioner credentialing, privileging, and evaluation (focused and ongoing).

The supplemental data may not be used in lieu of a process to capture local data. However, in rare situations, the Joint Commission says it recognizes that local data may be unavailable, and decisions must rely primarily on outside data.