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How To Avoid Negligent Credentialing in ASCs

MedTrainer

Negligent credentialing occurs when healthcare facilities grant privileges to medical professionals to practice within their facility without first conducting due diligence in assessing their qualifications, competence, and ethical standing. What Is Negligent Credentialing?

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Achieving Transparency: How to Close a Critical Gap in Healthcare Compliance

Verisys

This includes licensed and unlicensed staff members, as well as partners, investors, contingent workers, agents, and contractors you do business with. The safety of your patients depends on making sound hiring decisions and ensuring that the licenses of your staff are current.

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Tips on investigating prescribers

Natalia Mazina

While it is true that a pharmacy usually has no means of knowing of an open investigation due to the confidential nature of such investigations, there are several ways to research past records of a prescriber: Medical Board’s Records. In a nutshell, when filling a script from new prescribers it is important to verify their licenses.

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Achieving Transparency: How to Close a Critical Gap in Healthcare Compliance

Verisys

This includes licensed and unlicensed staff members, as well as partners, investors, contingent workers, agents, and contractors you do business with. Not only does thorough screening and rigorous continuous monitoring help ensure quality employees, but it also provides 360-degree transparency.

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What Is the Credentialing Process?

MedTrainer

Privileging involves the collection and review of a provider’s documentation to determine if they’re worthy to provide care to patients within a specific institution. You’re often at the mercy of these institutions to reply to you, and there are often delays or discrepancies in documentation. Primary Source Verification.

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Protected Health Information (PHI): Everything You Need to Know about HIPAA and PHI

Total HIPAA

Driver’s license number. For example, accountants, attorneys, document shredding vendors, and IT vendors all qualify as Business Associates or Business Associate Subcontractors. Some companies sign a BAA without completing the HIPAA compliance process or ensuring that the other party has also done their due diligence.

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New Job Protections for New Jersey Health Care Workers Following Changes in Control of Their Health Care Entity Employer

Health Law Advisor

Change in control includes sales, transfers, assignments, mergers, and reorganizations and is deemed to “occur on the date of execution of the document effectuating the change.”. It covers all non-governmental healthcare entities licensed under N.J.S.A. 315 (the Law). 26:2H-1 et seq.,