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Simplify Your Medical Credentialing Process With a Credentialing Software Solution
For many healthcare organizations, it’s difficult to keep up with medical credentialing – after all, you are in the business of healing, not chasing after provider data. Whether you use paper, spreadsheets, email, or fax, the credentialing process can be long and...
Can Your Hospital Afford Not to Outsource Credentialing?
As the number of satellite facilities per provider increases and the definition of healthcare expands, it adds to healthcare organizations’ burdens–not just in providing care, but also in terms of the administrative burden and costs necessary to maintain a practice....
Is Your Medical Credentialing Taking Too Long?
The credentialing process for hospitals and health systems prioritizes in-depth research and meticulous accuracy, which means that it is not a speedy process, often taking from 90 to 120 days to complete. However, verifying a provider’s credentials is essential....
Telehealth Regulations: What’s In, What’s Out
As the pandemic continues into the winter months and COVID disruptions continue to affect the healthcare workforce, states, payers, and providers should be aware of recent changes that will affect telehealth services and access to telemedicine. Providers and payers...
Medical Provider Credentialing 101
While medical credentialing might be considered a modern concept, credentialing dates as far back as the practice of medicine itself. The first documentation of medical credentialing can be traced to 1000 BC by the ancient Persian, Zoroaster, in which physician...
How to Be Removed from the OIG Exclusion List
Federal payments for healthcare services account for 28% of all healthcare spending in the United States. Payments from Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, CHIP, and other federal programs are a significant source of funds for nearly every healthcare organization and...
Five Ways Payers Can Improve Provider Responsiveness
By Scott Alsup Consider partnering with a Credentials Verification Organization (CVO) to save time and expedite your provider credentialing. It can be difficult for health plans to complete provider credentialing without the help of a CVO. As the largest CVO in the...
What Is Provider Enrollment?
By Tracey Tokheim, Senior Director of Product Management at Verisys Corporation Many healthcare providers justifiably experience confusion over the terminology surrounding provider enrollment, which is only getting more complicated with the ongoing changes in...
Ensuring Provider Directory Compliance With H.R. 133
By Donald Potts and Donovan Schwartz If you have a provider directory, you probably know about the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (aka H.R. 133). Passed last December, the Act requires group health plans and health insurance issuers to improve the...
Verisys Named Best Companies to Work for
Anonymous employee-based surveys reviewed by Utah Business magazine editors tell the story of Verisys as one of the 2021 Best Companies to Work for in Utah Verisys Corporation, a credentials verification organization to the healthcare sector serving some of the...