As the healthcare industry is increasingly targeted for data theft and fraud, information security has emerged as a top priority for healthcare institutions. In 2020, more large healthcare breaches...
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4 Reasons Compliance Experts Feel FACIS is the Gold Standard
The healthcare industry has rapidly evolved, and with that, the need for a reliable and comprehensive provider sanction and exclusion database became increasingly apparent, enter FACIS. Verisys introduced the Fraud Abuse Control Information System (FACIS) to meet this...
Best Practices for 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...
7 Red Flags to Watch for During Healthcare Credentialing
Provider credentialing is a crucial aspect of any healthcare organization. It helps healthcare organizations maintain the standard of providing quality patient care and ensures patient safety. It takes time to thoroughly credential one provider, from several weeks to...
We’ve got you covered! 4 Elements of Background Screening You Should Know About
Conducting employee background checks manually? You could be missing important information that could protect your patients and organization from “bad actors.” Hiring a bad actor can result in patient harm, reputational damage, and legal litigation with heavy fines. ...
Hidden Secret to Ensuring Excellence for Any Healthcare Org
Primary Source Verification: One of the Hidden Secrets to Ensuring Excellence in Any Healthcare Organization. Did you know that August is National Primary Source Verification Month? Dedicating an entire month to primary source verification may seem unusual. But, it...
Achieving Transparency: How to Close a Critical Gap in Healthcare Compliance
Continuous Data Monitoring is Key to Patient Safety Employing quality providers results in better patient outcomes. And better outcomes affect your bottom line in many ways: Patient safety and satisfaction Higher reimbursement rates Reputational supremacy Physician...
8 Common Provider Credentialing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Have you ever considered the possible downstream effects of an inadequate credentialing and privileging process? In a frequently cited negligent credentialing case, an Illinois jury awarded the plaintiff nearly 8 million dollars when their foot had to be...
How to Tackle Pharma’s 3 Biggest Compliance Risks Head-On with Verisys
How often have you started at a new organization and heard these phrases? “You can’t do that.” “That’s against policy.” “We always do it this way, not that way.” As frustrating as these phrases are to hear, there may be a reason behind them. Some companies make...
Data Compliance: How to Identify and Close Data Risk Gaps Using Technology
A three-part compliance series that focuses on using technology to help you achieve your compliance goals. Did you know that about 1 in every 20 healthcare providers will have negative information such as a suspension, debarment, or even exclusion in their records?...
Data Compliance: 3 Focus Areas for Mitigating Organizational Risk
There is no question that healthcare organizations should have an effective healthcare compliance program. Despite differences in compliance requirements across healthcare sectors, there is a common denominator— the actions taken to reduce risk are often the same...
