RE: Dr. Grace is not employed by the Hospital. He is a private physician who has admitting privileges.
So,what does admitting privileges mean?
Does this mean he can go to the hospital to treat his patients?
yes he is a Dr there .
He can admit and practice
few dr are directly employed any more
Yes of course it does. The admitting physician is his patient’s doctor unless and until he turns his patient over to either another physician with privileges or a physician employed by the hospital. Twitter is tge misleading entity here.
Yes of course he is a doctor there. Unless a doctor is in a specialty that is hospital-specific (no reason for a separate office & private practice), he is not likely to be employed by a hospital. For example, I imagine that emergency medicine and hospitalist doctors are hospital employees but IDK who else.
Does this mean he can go to the hospital to treat his patients?
Yes he is a private physician either self-employed or employed by a physician group that covers patient's at the hospital. While he is not paid directly as an employee, the hospital makes money off of the patients he admits there.
Many times the physician group has a contract with a major insurance company to cover their patients. In some cases the Doctor is an employee of a group who has a contract with the hospital to provide physician services inside the hospital. In this type of case the Doctor is technically not employed directly by the hospital but is a contractor inside the hospital.
In New York it is very possible that he has a private practice and admits and sees his own patients while they are in the hospital.