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Expanding Operations to India
Hyderabad, India / Louisville, KY, June 16, 2022 — Verisys Corporation, a leader in health care data and technology providing turn-key workforce management for some of the largest health systems in the U.S., announced the expansion of operations in India through a...
What Does the OFAC Sanctions List Have to do With Russia and Ukraine?
Reports from Ukraine continue to reveal devastation, including shelled-out apartment buildings, street fighting in Kyiv, and missile launches from the Black Sea. Since the initial assault on Feb. 24, hundreds of Ukrainians have died and hundreds of thousands more have...
Provider Data Challenges for Health Plans
By Charlie Falcone While leaving her house to visit her grandson, Sue falls and twists her knee. At the emergency room, the doctors begin a series of tests to discover what’s wrong with her knee. Unfortunately, Sue’s knee injury is complex. It will take months for her...
The Importance of Primary Source Verification for Practitioner Credentials
If there’s one thing healthcare organizations can count on, it’s changing regulations. Although credentialing and recredentialing standards were temporarily changed due to COVID, many regulations are returning to the former protocol. That’s why it’s important to...
We’ve Got You Covered With Background Screening
Conducting employee background checks yourself? You could be missing important information that could protect your organization. For starters, background checks must be thorough. Which databases and primary sources do you check to ensure that you are getting a...
What is a Healthcare Compliance Officer?
As government agencies and national regulatory organizations pass more regulations and the need for healthcare services grows, healthcare compliance officers (HCOs) are more important than ever. Healthcare entities must comply with an increasingly complex and changing...
Best Practices for Healthcare License Verification and Monitoring
Did you know that for every 1,000 licensed healthcare practitioners there will typically be 20 with inactive licenses, 10 with a suspended license, and another six practitioners with either a restricted or revoked license, or on probation? On top of that, among those...
Four Keys for Project Management Success: How to Drive Innovation
By Jim Congleton In my role as senior director of project management at Verisys, I manage as many as 65 projects at a time, directing 15 project and implementation managers through initiatives budgeted anywhere from $6,000 to millions of dollars. With such a large...
Eight Common Physician Credentialing Mistakes
If you find credentialing uninspiring, consider this cautionary tale. In a frequently cited negligent credentialing case, an Illinois jury awarded the plaintiff nearly $8 million dollars when the patient’s foot had to be amputated due to damage caused by the operating...
Everything You Need To Know About NPI Numbers
What Are NPI Numbers? The NPI (National Provider Identifier) number is a 10-digit numerical identifier that identifies an individual provider or a healthcare entity. An NPI number is shared with other providers, employers, health plans, and payers for billing...