Negligent credentialing is a separate and independent claim from medical negligence, but a negligent credentialing claim cannot proceed without either a simultaneous or prior adjudication of or stipulation to medical negligence.
At issue was whether a hospital’s grant of staff privileges to a physician, otherwise known as credentialing a physician, confers a duty upon the hospital that is separate and independent of the duty the physician owes to the hospital’s patients.
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