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Ongoing Monitoring
Unleash the power of proactive monitoring. Monitor professional licenses and transactional datasets to ensure workforce compliance.
Stay Ahead of Sanctions & Stay Compliant
By using FACIS® to continuously monitor your active employee population, organizations demonstrate due diligence in hiring and the contracting process. This level of screening and monitoring helps avoid employing or partnering with individuals or entities with a history of fraud or abuse. Therefore, minimizing risk to your organization and patient’s safety.
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Identify Fraud & Reduce Organizational Risk
Verisys offers an extensive range of monitoring data sets, including:
High-Speed License Monitoring
Verisys verifies professional licenses and other data sets with primary sources using automation and robotics. Verisys verifies the license number, status, issue and expiration dates, and any current or historical disciplinary actions.
NPI Validation
By validating an NPI number during the process of screening and monitoring providers for credentialing and enrollment, as well as referring supplier entities, you gain a valuable tool for complete transparency.
Ongoing Monitoring
Continuously monitoring your population adds a layer of security and makes ongoing compliance with regulations set by standard-setting bodies possible. To stay in compliance with federal and state regulations and to keep patients safe, it’s vital for hospitals and health systems to monitor the licenses of their practitioners for new information that may prevent a physician from practicing
Death Master File (SSA-DMF)
We use the DMF with thousands of other primary source publishers and records to build a comprehensive and accurate picture of an individual or entity, proactively preventing fraud, abuse, and reputational damage. We take the raw data from over 320 million records to match each piece of data to the right provider or entity with 99% accuracy in a usable, actionable format.
Abuse Registry Monitoring
Verisys offers a robust solution for safeguarding vulnerable populations in healthcare through its comprehensive abuse registry monitoring system. Utilizing advanced data analytics and an aggregation of data from over 3,500 sources, Verisys ensures near-perfect match accuracy for identity verification, crucial for protecting children, the elderly, and other at-risk groups.
DEA Monitoring
Drug Enforcement Administration registration allows providers to write prescriptions for controlled substances; it is also a way for the DEA to track provider prescriptions and monitor potential fraud and abuse.
OFAC+
Verisys diligently scans over 3,500 primary references, inclusive of OFAC+, and promptly validates results, offering your organization an all-encompassing snapshot of your population and ensuring sustained OFAC+ compliance.
CDS Monitoring
Controlled Drug Substance (CDS) monitoring of providers is essential to prevent controlled substance fraud and abuse that could endanger patients.
FACIS®: The Gold Standard in Sanction Monitoring
FACIS® is the industry’s most comprehensive database consisting of primary content from federal and state sources for exclusions, sanctions, debarments, disciplinary actions, and adverse events against healthcare professionals and entities for all 868 taxonomies and all 56 U.S. states and jurisdictions. A database of over 10 million records from 3,500 primary sources on provider exclusions, sanctions, and adverse events, FACIS® delivers 360-degree transparency on providers, staff, and entities for the organizations who hire, credential, refer, and reimburse for healthcare delivery.
When it comes to keeping customers and patients safe, you need the gold standard.
FACIS Data Verification & Monitoring
Below is a sample of the Verisys datasets verified and monitored:
Abuse Registry
Sex Offender Registry
DEA Verification
CDS Verification
SSA-DMF Verification
OFAC+
Affiliations Verification
Civil and Criminal Background Check
Domestic Education Verification
Foreign Education Verification
SSN Verification and Address History
Screens the National Sex Offender Database for all U.S. states, tribes, and territories and provides the identities and locations of sex offenders
Primary sourced from the DEA via the NTIS. Searches DEA registrants (prescribers, distributors, and wholesalers of controlled substances)
Controlled Dangerous Substance – 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.
Screens U.S. and foreign data sources for data related to Anti-Money Laundering (AML), terrorists, fugitives, most wanted criminals, etc.
Verify the provider’s affiliation(s) and the department or service, staff status, number of admissions, time spent at the facility and dates.
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.
Verify the provider’s school, dates of attendance or graduation, and degree/ major. Verifying the highest level of education related to the profession.
Verify the completion of the ECFMG or FPGEC Certifications as they relate to this educational requirement.
An SSN Trace validates the history of past, present, and also known as names and aliases connected with a Social Security Number.
Employment History
NPI Validation
PECOS Enrollment
Medical Training Verification
Military History Verification
Motor Vehicle Driving History
Peer Reference Verification
NPDB
Malpractice Certificate of Insurance Verification
Specialty Board Certification Verification
Malpractice Claims History Verification
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)
Validation that the NPI number is a match to the provider and entity type.
Provide the PECOS enrollment status of a provider enrolled in Medicare.
Verify the provider’s submitted training, internship, residency and/or fellowship (highest level) including program type, specialty, and dates.
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)
Verify the provider’s driver’s license number, status, state of insurance, and driving history report.
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.
Screens NPDB when Verisys is designated as the Authorized Agent on the NPDB account with the NPDB Continuous Query option activated.
Obtain a copy of the current malpractice policy binder (insurance fact sheet) with dates and amount of coverage – Going back 5 years.
Search for a single board certification based on provider type and verification of board classification, specialty, designation, and certifying board.
Verify the provider’s malpractice settlements and/or judgements for the submitted malpractice carriers – Going back 5 years.
