Medical staff: health care provider credentialing

Hospitals can reappoint medical staff and recheck clinical competence every three years instead of more often.

The law aligns hospital credentialing and competency-review intervals at a three-year cycle while retaining medical-staff oversight requirements.

What the law does

Requires hospital medical-staff reappointments at least every three years.
Requires physicians, surgeons, and other covered medical-staff members to demonstrate competence when first appointed and at least every three years thereafter.
Bars the State Department of Public Health from requiring general acute care or acute psychiatric hospitals to conduct routine reappointments more frequently than every three years.
Requires general acute care and acute psychiatric hospital governing bodies to ensure medical staff maintain controls for professional and ethical standards.

General acute care hospitals and acute psychiatric hospitals.
Hospital governing bodies and medical-staff credentialing committees.
Physicians, surgeons, and other licensed practitioners seeking or maintaining medical-staff appointments.

Existing protections against discrimination between M.D. and D.O. physicians remain in place.