Who you gonna call? Competing/coordinating roles of the medical staff attorney and the hospital attorney

3) Describe the organization of the medical staff. 4) Describe the qualifications to be met by a candidate in order for the medical staff to recom- mend that the candidate be appointed by the governing body. 5) Include a requirement that a physical examination and medical history be done no more than seven days before or 48 hours after an admission for each patient by a doctor of medicine or osteopathy, or, for patients admitted only for oro- maxillofacial surgery, by an oromaxillofacial surgeon who has been granted such privi- leges by the medical staff in accordance with state law. 6) Include criteria for determin- ing the privileges to be granted to individual practitioners and a procedure for applying the criteria to individuals request- ing privileges.9 The Joint Commission, the national hospital accreditation service which dominates the accreditation market and essentially determines Medicare status, expands upon Medi- care requirements for medical staff bylaws in its standards and their Ele- ments of Performance, by which compliance with the standards is mea- sured. [...]a lawyer having independent justifi- cation or legal authorization for communicating with a represented person is permitted to do so. [...]if the medical staff has retained counsel solely for purposes of medical staff bylaws revisions (where as parties considering amending their contract, each should have its own lawyer,) hospital counsel may none- theless communicate with the medical staff leadership regarding a different matter where hospital and medical staff interests align.