Resigning credentials/privileges for hospital I no longer work at?

[postsynaptic24]

I was contacted by hospital I haven't worked at in over a year for re-credentialing. I told them I no longer work there, and they told me to resign my credentials. Basically, I'm wondering if there are any negative implications to voluntarily resigning my credentials? Have any other PAs had experience with this? Thanks

[Cideous]

Resigning no...having them revoked for non-compliance?  Yes....bad.

[ohiovolffemtp]

I've just let mine expire at hospitals where I no longer work.  I think the medical staff offices knew this was going to happen with a number of folks because it was a change in which EM staffing group held the ED contract.

[surgblumm]

I have resigned my credentials ib at least five hospitals because I no longer worked for them or operated at them with my partner or when leading a twenty person PA group. Staying on means paying yearly dues and most institutions prefer to lose the dues and have a clean representation of their staff.

[SedRate]

On 8/13/2020 at 7:36 AM, postsynaptic24 said:

I was contacted by hospital I haven't worked at in over a year for re-credentialing. I told them I no longer work there, and they told me to resign my credentials. Basically, I'm wondering if there are any negative implications to voluntarily resigning my credentials? Have any other PAs had experience with this? Thanks

I had the same concern but the verification office told me it's just the way they categorize it formally. No negative implications other than it's a pain to go through the process again if you ever go back. Involuntary resignation is what you need to worry about. 

The benefit of keeping your privileges is that you can easily pick up shifts at that hospital if you need a new job or additional income. I would encourage you to keep them if possible.

When switching specialties and relocating, some of my doc colleagues told me to keep my privileges just in case my new gig didn't work out and I wanted to come back. Unfortunately, as a PA, med staff wouldn't let me keep them unless my old SP continued to support my privileges (unfortunately, I medicolegally couldn't because I was switching to a different specialty) or I found a new SP to support me. I sent a formal letter to those hospitals informing them of my relocation and request of suspension. But, by my leaving, this was deemed a voluntary resignation, so my privileges were resigned anyway. Oh well. 

[SHU-CH]

It's usually best to formally resign so it's clear you initiated the process (and not the facility) and that no disciplinary issues were involved. If you fail to send in paperwork, you might get "suspended" which is usually reportable to future employers. 

[postsynaptic24]

Thanks everyone. I went ahead and voluntarily resigned them, that seemed the best option. I'm also not in the same specialty I was in when I had those credentials. It'll just be a pain to do the whole 90-120 days credentialing process if I did want to work at that hospital again.