FACIS Licensure, FACIS Data Verification & Monitoring

Below is a sample of the FACIS datasets verified and monitored: 

• Abuse Registry: State abuse records on providers or clinical personnel with complaints, investigations, or adverse actions due to the abuse of patients, the  disabled, and/or the elderly

• Sex Offender Registry: Screens the National Sex Offender Database for all U.S. states, tribes, and territories and provides the identities and locations of sex offenders

• DEA Verification: Primary sourced from the DEA via the NTIS. Searches DEA registrants (prescribers, distributors, and wholesalers of controlled substances)

• Controlled Dangerous Substance (CDS) Verification: Verify the provider’s CDS license number, including status, issue and expiration date, primary source information, and any disciplinary action.

• Social Security Administration Death Master File Verification: The SSA-DMF contains records of deaths reported to SSA and contains SSN, Name, DOB, Date of Death, State, and ZIP code.

• OFAC+: Screens U.S. and foreign data sources for data related to Anti-Money Laundering (AML), terrorists, fugitives, most wanted criminals, etc.

• Affiliations Verification: Verify the provider’s affiliation(s) and the department or service, staff status, number of admissions, time spent at the facility and dates.

• Civil and Criminal Background Check: Search of Federal District Courts, County Courts, and Upper Civil Courts for records of federal offenses, civil suits, and criminal convictions at the  federal, state, and county levels.

• Domestic Education Verification: Verify the provider’s school, dates of attendance or graduation, and degree/ major. Verifying the highest level of education related to the profession.

• Foreign Education Verification: Verify the completion of the ECFMG or FPGEC Certifications as they relate to this educational requirement.

• Employment History: Verify the provider’s previous employment including employer, start and end dates, title, and point of contact’s name and information (up to 10 yrs)

• NPI Validation: Validation that the NPI number is a match to the provider and entity type.

• PECOS Enrollment: Provide the PECOS enrollment status of a provider enrolled in Medicare.

• Medical Training Verification: Verify the provider’s submitted training, internship, residency and/or fellowship (highest level) including program type, specialty, and dates.

• Military History Verification: Verify a provider’s military work history. Provider must complete an SF 180 in order to obtain the provider’s service records (DD Form 214)

• Motor Vehicle Driving History: Verify the provider’s driver’s license number, status, state of insurance, and driving history report.

• Peer Reference Verification: Contact each provider’s professional/peer references to garner opinions of the practitioners skills, character, and professional competency. Verisys will  make three attempts at contact over the course of two weeks

• NPDB: Screens NPDB when Verisys is designated as the Authorized Agent on the NPDB account with the NPDB Continuous Query option activated.

• Malpractice Certificate of Insurance Verification: Obtain a copy of the current malpractice policy binder (insurance fact sheet) with dates and amount of coverage – Going back 5 years

• Specialty Board Certification Verification: Search for a single board certification based on provider type and verification of board classification, specialty, designation, and certifying board

• Malpractice Claims History Verification: Verify the provider’s malpractice settlements and/or judgements for the submitted malpractice carriers – Going back 5 years

• SSN Verification and Address History: A SSN Trace validates the history of past, present, and also known as names and aliases connected with a Social Security Number