Year: 2010
Resolution Number: 60
Action Taken: Disapproved
Status:
Author(s): Ponon Dileep Kumar, MD
Sponsor: Michael L. Gambel, MD
On behalf of: International Medical Graduate Section
Committee: A (Medical Care Delivery)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to work with the Joint Commission and other accrediting organizations to establish suitable criteria for privileging primary care physicians to treat medical patients at hospitals even if their total number of patient admissions falls below a particular threshold in a year, with a report back in 2011.RATIONALE: The Committee was in agreement with existing AMA policy on physicians with low-volume hospital activity. The AMA policy was reaffirmed in 2009 and emphasized that each hospital and medical staff should create its own standards for credentialing and privileging low-volume physicians.
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to work with the Joint Commission and other accrediting organizations to establish suitable criteria for privileging primary care physicians to treat medical patients at hospitals even if their total number of patient admissions falls below a particular threshold in a year, with a report back in 2011.RATIONALE: The Committee was in agreement with existing AMA policy on physicians with low-volume hospital activity. The AMA policy was reaffirmed in 2009 and emphasized that each hospital and medical staff should create its own standards for credentialing and privileging low-volume physicians.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Credentialing Low-Volume/No-Volume Practitioners