This customizable document, The Privileging Process, is taken from MCN Healthcare's Guide to Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry's leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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	PURPOSE: Privileging refers to the process where a healthcare organization determines what specific medical procedures a physician may do within that organization. Although many parts of the privileging process parallel and overlap with the credentialing process, the specific part of the privileging process is the determination of a practitioner's ability to do certain procedures based on training and experience. Occasionally, however, an applicant may be granted privileges but not medical staff membership. For example, a dentist may be granted privileges to do the appropriate dental work...
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	...documented in written form or a written peer evaluation of practitioner-specific data which is collected from various sources to verify the applicant's current competence. Faculty Recommendations Review of the applicant's performance within the organization, when renewing privileges Healthcare organizations may delineate clinical privileges several ways. Some examples include: Practitioner Specialty: Example, privileges based on practitioner's specialty such as pediatrics, internal...