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What should you do when you spot a credentialing red flag in an applicant’s file? Is it an automatic “no”?  Will you be sued? Is there liability exposure for denying this applicant? Or is this an applicant worth getting more information about? What caselaw, regulation, statute, standards have changed since you last set your credentialing policies? Are outdated credentialing policies undermining recruiting? Do your credentialing red flags have red flags?   


  • Identify top ten health care professional credentialing issues
  • Review peer review law related to credentialing 
  • Evaluate accuracy of red flag designation for credentialing issues
  • Learn recent developments affecting credentialing standards
  • Understand how to weigh benefits and costs of credentialing criteria
  • Limit liability for credentialers

This webinar touches on top ten red flags, helping you to conduct a cost/benefit analysis when you find them in applications. 

  • Gaps in the Resume
  • Data Bank Reports
  • OIG Sanctions
  • Multiple Licenses
  • Malpractice Cases
  • Criminal Record
  • Credit Reports
  • Privileges Actions
  • Licensure Actions
  • Age

To dive deep into credentialing issues and update credentialing protocols


As Legal Counsel for the Medical Staff PLLC, healthcare attorney handling credentialing, Data Bank, and peer review matters for 30 years.


Elizabeth Snelson represents medical staffs across the country, focusing on medical staff bylaws, and works for medical societies on medical staff issues. A frequent speaker on medical staff legal issues, Ms Snelson presents at medical staff leadership retreats, and in programs sponsored by state medical staff services associations and medical societies, the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, and other organizations.  She is Past President of the American Society of Medical Association Counsel, Vice President of the ABA’s Physician Issues Interest Group, and serves Of Counsel to the Minneapolis law firm of Lockridge Grindal Nauen.  She was a member of the Joint Commission’s MS 01.01.01 Task Force.   Her articles on medical staff legal issues have appeared in various publications.  She is the author of The Physicians’ Guide to Medical Staff Organization Bylaws, published by AMA, the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Model Medical Staff Bylaws and other model medical staff documents. 

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