Healthcare License Monitoring Best Practices
Learn the best practices for an effective healthcare license monitoring program. Stay compliant with Joint Commission and accreditation standards, licensure board authorities, and OIG and CMS guidelines.
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Healthcare License Monitoring: The Essential Guide
A comprehensive guide to healthcare license monitoring and verification, including regulatory changes and best practices for the tracking and management of licenses and certifications.
Benefits of Separating Your Healthcare Pre-hire Screening and Ongoing Employee Monitoring Solutions
Why should you separate your pre-hire screening and your ongoing employee monitoring? Learn how to help mitigate risk, and provide a safety net for unknown data at your organization.
Joint Commission HR Standards – Are You Audit-Ready?
Ever wonder if today is the day the Joint Commission shows up to begin its audit of your Human Resource compliance practices? How will you confidently demonstrate compliance with Joint Commission HR standards?
Healthcare Pre-Employment Screening vs. Ongoing Employee Monitoring
What's the difference between healthcare pre-employment screening and ongoing employee monitoring? This helpful post breaks down how your healthcare organization can ensure compliance from pre-hire on.
Guidelines for Human Resource Compliance
In today's healthcare industry, HR and Compliance are no longer siloed. These two departments often find themselves with increasingly similar responsibilities and are identifying new ways to work together to improve healthcare delivery.
You Can’t Afford Not to Monitor Healthcare Licenses and Sanctions
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” At least that is what Benjamin Franklin said a century ago. He is right, and that was insightful - even before his face would appear on U.S. currency. Little did he know how many “Benjamins” it would cost a healthcare company in fines for non-compliance with licenses.
Sanctioning Doctors for Opioid Prescription Abuse
Recently, the state of New Jersey ramped up its enforcement efforts by sanctioning 31 physicians for allegedly over-prescribing painkillers. This is a trend that seems to put a dent in the proliferation of addiction to pain killers, and the epidemic of pain killer narcotic over-prescription.
Onboarding an Employee – Steps to Ensure a Compliant Culture
"The moment you meet a stranger, both of your brains are making thousands of computations at lightening speed to make major decision about one another," according to an article in Forbes. This only take seven seconds. It only takes seven seconds to make a first impression.
6 Ways Compliance Team Hiring Practices Actually Drives Healthcare Compliance
Cindy Daigle, Director of Compliance at U.S. Renal Care, shares her thoughts on hiring best practices. Compliance Team hiring practices plays into the long term success of the organization as well as driving the company’s compliance.
Unlicensed Care: It’s Healthcare License Fraud and a False Claim
In order to perform and bill for certain medical services, a provider must be properly licensed. A submission for reimbursement of federal healthcare dollars for unlicensed care is considered both a false claim and fraud.
Healthcare license fraud is a reality – here’s how to avoid it
While errors in the healthcare license verification and tracking process is a very real possibility, following healthcare license verification best practices can help your organization remain in the clear.
How to combat license fraud with healthcare license verification
Combat healthcare license fraud and ensure your staff is properly licensed and qualified with a comprehensive license verification program.
Time Delays in Healthcare License Reporting to State Licensing Boards
Does your monthly license monitoring strategy take into consideration the time delays in reporting disciplinary actions to state licensing boards?
Three Common Nuances in the Healthcare License Verification Process
The process of verifying licenses might seem pretty simple. However, learning the nuances of your state’s license board is imperative to ensure compliance for your healthcare organization.
A Quick Cheat Sheet on Sanction Screening
Check out our handy cheat sheet to understand how your organization can leverage sanction screening to protect against hefty fines from the OIG.
A Sanction Screening Deep-Dive: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
Learn more about healthcare sanction screening and how to enhance your HR profiles for providers or employees with disciplinary or administrative actions.