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Why Future Proofing Your Credentialing Should be Your Top Initiative Right Now
COVID-19 has disrupted healthcare organizations dramatically and led to a $50B a month loss in revenue. We interviewed Chris Gann, AVP of Product at VerityStream, to learn how we...
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Industry Insight Webinar
Accreditation Standards & Credentialing Requirements for Today's Radiology Practices & Imaging Care Centers
In order to receive reimbursement from Medicare and other payers, today’s radiology practices and imaging care centers must be accredited by a designated accrediting organization....
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Annual Report
2020 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment
This report represents 563 responses of individuals involved in provider enrollment who provided information that is valuable to the healthcare industry....
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Credentialing in a Pandemic
In the face of a pandemic, it is pretty clear that everyone's facing a workforce challenge. This is why credentialing, privileging, and onboarding providers as rapidly as possible...
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2020 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment: The State of the Industry and What’s Ahead
Every year, VerityStream, a leading provider of credentialing, enrollment, and privileging solutions for US healthcare organizations, conducts a survey to 500+ individuals involved...
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White Paper
Privileging Telehealth Providers
Although telehealth is brimming with benefits, there are several issues involved with delivering it that need attention and clarification. Our white paper dives into these issues...
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Facts all Urgent Care Clinics Need to Know to Keep Ahead of Their Competition
As more and more urgent care clinics enter the marketplace, competition is starting to heat up. Here are several ways your organization can remain at the forefront and be a leader...
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The Financial Implications of Provider Data Management
Sorin Davis, Senior Vice President, Industry Relation, Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), and Cheryl Cisneros, Consultant Advisor, VerityStream, will discuss the...
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The Impact of Technology, COVID-19, and Other Factors on Credentialing and Medical Services Professionals
An exciting discussion of where the medical services and credentialing profession is headed - and how to determine the best way to position yourself for success. ...
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Infographic
You Have Credentialing Pains. VerityStream has Solutions
Spike in the number of physicians your hospital employs? Overloaded? Doing the best you can? We know these credentialing pains and we have the solutions to solve these challenges....
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2020 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing
43.4% of medical services professionals we surveyed have fully implemented a single online application for their entire organization. Learn more in VerityStream’s 2020 Annual...
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How to Prepare for the NCQA CVO Certification Process Including Virtual Surveys
Whether you are a CVO that is considering becoming NCQA certified for the first time, or are working towards recertification, the preparation process can be a daunting one,...
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A Spotlight on Culture Change and How to Foster Agility
VerityStream recently released its 2020 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing. Learn how industry leaders have faced the change brought on by the current crisis and their...
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The Urgent Need for Credentialing and Privileging Automation in Urgent Care Clinics
UCCs must ensure patients receive competent care at qualified facilities from capable caregivers, but credentialing and privileging providers and facilities is a time-consuming job...
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2020 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing
VerityStream recently surveyed 996 medical services professionals and outlined all we learned in our 2020 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing....
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COVID-19 Series - What You Need to Know Today: Provider Enrollment and Financial Implications, Facts and Resources
This webinar will provide essential information to assist in navigating the challenges and enrollment implications in response to the COVID-19 disaster. ...
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Privileging Telehealth Providers
As the U.S. healthcare systems braces for the expected surge of COVID-19 patients, the demand for telehealth services is greater than ever before. ...
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COVID-19 Series - Conducting Virtual Credentialing Meetings and Electronic Approvals During the COVID-19 National Emergency
A National Emergency has been declared for COVID-19. Your job is changing daily as are requirements from the federal government. ...
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COVID-19 Series - What You Need to Know Today: Tele-Staffing and Working from Home During the COVID-19 National Emergency
A National Emergency has been declared for COVID-19. Your job is changing daily as are requirements from the federal government. Have you suddenly been required to work from...
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COVID-19 Series - What You Need to Know Today: Disaster and Telehealth Privileging During the COVID-19 National Emergency
A National Emergency has been declared for COVID-19. Your job is changing daily as are requirements from the federal government. What impact does this national emergency have on...
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Automate Collection of Provider Procedure Data to Ensure Patient Safety
On March 31st at 1pm CST, VerityStream’s Vicki Searcy, Vice President of Consulting Services, and Sarah Cassidy, Solution Executive, will discuss a recently published industry...
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Top Reasons to Automate and Standardize Privileging with VerityStream's Privilege Solution
Ready to be a privileging superstar? See how VerityStream's Privilege solution can help you fortify patient care, satisfy providers, and comply with industry regulations....
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Facts all Ambulatory Surgery Centers Need to Know About Privileging
Understand the facts and achieve clinical competency for Ambulatory Surgery Center credentialing and privileging, a vital pillar to patient safety and risk management. ...
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Trends that Will Shape a New Decade in Healthcare
Fact or fad? Find out which trends will impact healthcare and provider management over the next decade and which will not in this new report....
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Top 9 Reasons Why Medical Groups Choose CredentialStream for Provider Enrollment
Enroll faster and get paid faster – with CredentialStream you can. Check out the top 9 reasons medical groups choose CredentialStream for provider enrollment....
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Privileging: What You Need to Know About Establishing and Maintaining Requirements for Basic and Advanced Life Support Certification
Attend this session and learn about the alphabet soup of the various types of certifications (ALS, ACLS, ATLS, NPR, PALS to name a few)....
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What Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) Should Know About Life Support Certification
How VerityStream and HealthStream connect resuscitation certifications, provider validation, privilege delineation, and the American Red Cross together to save lives and improve...
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2019 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment and Health Plan Credentialing
We present the results in our annual industry report, compare previous years’ data, and look ahead to the future of the provider enrollment industry...
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CMS Open Payments Database
Do you know which of your physicians have accepted pharmaceutical company payments? Use this infographic to make sure you are informed about CMS Open Payments....
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2019 Annual Report on Managing Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of interest (COI) continue to be a hot button issue for hospitals, physicians, the federal government, and the public at large. This annual report outlines 10 key...
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2019 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment and Health Plan Credentialing
Join us for an informative webinar during which we’ll reveal the top ten discoveries from our 2019 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment and Health Plan Credentialing....
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The Importance of Data Accuracy for Directories and Outbound Reports
Data accuracy has never been more critical as federal and state regulation become more stringent and require organizations to become more cognizant of directory data. VerityStream...
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Automate Privileging for Your Surgery Center
Take the burden off your staff and ensure compliance with government regulations by leveraging the most comprehensive library of evidence-based privilege delineation forms and more...
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Ensuring Clinical Excellence and Driving Performance Improvement with VerityStream Privilege + Evaluate
Find out how the linkage of provider and patient data provides actionable information to impact patient care and outcomes....
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2019 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing
This report identifies highly important initiatives are process improvement, provider data management, standardizing privileges, implementing online provider applications, and the...
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How to Strategically Streamline your Small Medical Group Office to Increase Revenue and Expedite Provider Enrollment
VerityStream Express + Enroll delivers an out-of-the-box experience – to gain access to ready-to-go workflows, reports, forms and so much more. Medical groups and other small,...
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2019 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing
With so many changes taking place, it’s imperative to understand how these changes impact your organization, patients, staff and bottom line....
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Dr. Death: What Lessons Can We Learn From The Tragic Events that Occurred in Texas?
In 2017, Christopher Duntsch, aka, Dr. Death, a neurosurgeon practicing in Texas, received a precedent-setting life sentence in prison for malpractice. Leaving a trail of over 30...
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Put Your Credentialing Program on a Diet: How to Effectively Eliminate Non-Value-Added Verifications
Efficiently and effectively navigate the often cumbersome processes tied to initial and reappointment verifications, activities that take time away from providing even higher...
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Data Consolidation Creates a Single Source of Truth for Provider Data
Find out how to assemble the right team, the right approach, and acquire the right tools to discover your single source of truth. ...
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Your Hospital Can’t Afford NOT to Invest in a Credentialing Solution
Here is why your healthcare organization must consider a credentialing solution or risk lost revenue. ...
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10 Tips for Choosing the Right Credentialing Solution
Are you prepared to get the most out of your credentialing vendor? We have created a list of the top 10 questions you should be asking during the credentialing solution selection...
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Don’t Be in Denial! Five Key Things to Know About Credentialing and Participation
Don’t be in denial! Protect your practice and your bottom line by learning all you can about credentialing and participation pitfalls, how to identify and avoid them and what you...
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The Perils of Being a Late Credentialing Software Adopter
The seemingly constant barrage of new technology, products, and services available for your organization can be overwhelming. What features for credentialing services are best? How...
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Your Nurse Validation Processes: Critical Condition - You Deserve Better and So Do Your Patients
VerityStream’s Nurse Validation is a comprehensive solution to validate and continuously monitor data on members of your nursing team to relieve labor-intensive processes, ensure...
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Get Your Head in the Clouds
Explore how to enhance and improve provider credentialing and enrollment with a cloud-based solution that doesn't require your IT for updates....
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Sanctions and Exclusions Verification and Monitoring Requires Vigilance
Monitoring for provider sanctions and exclusions are one of the most impactful processes on a medical practice's health. Rules and regulation are not going away and staying on top...
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Medical Group Credentialing and Enrollment Forecast Calling for Cloud
Provider onboarding, enrollment and verification are vital processes and are a necessary part of the practice’s business operations. They should be simple, easy, and organic to...
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Drum Roll Please: Announcing VerityStream for Senior and Long-Term Care Settings
To be sure your patients receive competent care at qualified facilities and from capable caregivers, you need a single system – built around the best content, data, and practices –...
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Supercharge Your Hospital’s Compliance Efforts with Workforce Validation from VerityStream
Are you confident that you’re properly validating not only your providers, but your entire workforce? Join us to find out how to implement this critical process....
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Standardizing Privileges in a Health System: What it Takes to be Successful
During this webinar, you will understand how INTEGRIS HEALTH was successful at standardizing privileges within their health system. ...
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ROI: Demonstrating the Value of Excellent Credentialing and Privileging
Learn about the latest tools and techniques you can use to quantify revenue benefits and educate your organization’s executives and leaders to understand the opportunity...
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You’re Not Dreaming - Streamlined Referring Provider Validation is Here
VerityStream’s Referring Provider Validation Solution enables a hospital to establish a source of truth for referring providers, available as a stand-alone solution or as an...
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10 Healthcare Trends for 2019: A Year of Struggles for Many with Great Opportunities for Some
Although change always takes a bit longer than we think or expect, it is inevitable in this case. When we look back in 10 years, healthcare practice and delivery may be...
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Integrating Centralized Credentialing Services and Provider Enrollment
Legacy Health’s journey to centralized credentialing and provider enrollment and the many benefits that the organization has experienced as a result of the integration. ...
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VerityStream, Truth Within Reach: Solving the Provider Data Dilemma
As healthcare reform, shifting regulations, and changing patient demographics continue to drive change, approaches to credentialing, privileging, enrollment, and evaluation must...
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6 Benefits of One Source of Truth for Provider Data for Credentialing and Enrollment and How to Get There
Consolidation creates a single source of truth for provider data, with one application and one reappointment date across all system facilities. A physician is in the system only...
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Streamlining Credentials-Related Meetings Through the Use of Technology
Is your organization leveraging electronic credentials meetings? This webinar will focus on the benefits, feasibility, and appropriate type of electronic credentials meeting for...
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VerityStream's Evaluate: Ensuring Clinical Excellence and Driving Performance Improvement
Most organizations still struggle with the onerous nature of knowing what to measure, collecting data from disparate sources, and delivering meaningful reports to stakeholders....
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Provider Enrollment Revenue Woes for Medical Groups
The cost of inefficient provider enrollment processes can be in the thousands of dollars, a detrimental number for medical groups. We break down the numbers in a concise...
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5 Things You Need to Know Now About Provider Data, CAQH, and CAQH Enrollment and Integration
CAQH is helping drive the goal of reducing healthcare costs by streamlining the way provider data is maintained and improving credentialing and enrollment processes....
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The Definitive Guide to Delegated Credentialing
If you’re interested in shaving weeks off your provider enrollment process, delegated credentialing might be for you. This guide will explain all you need to know about delegated...
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How to Build a Case for Investing in a Medical Group Payer Credentialing Solution
Increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve business operations on your to do list? Here is a way to figure out which one will benefit your organization the most....
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The Perils of Not Having Automated Medical Group Provider Enrollment Software Technology
Are you overwhelmed by the plethora of software innovation options before you? Are you worried it is too much of an investment? Don't hesitate, the dangers of being a late adopter...
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Poor Provider Data Could Lead to a Clash with CAQH
Accurate provider data is one of the key drivers of credentialing, maintaining network provider directories, facilitating claims processes, and much more. This is also critical for...
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How to Turn Your Medical Group Provider Enrollment Nightmares into Dreams
Not all nightmares have bad endings. Discover how VerityStream transformed other organizations just like yours and the benefits they now reap....
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Benefits of Using the Cloud in Healthcare
Two-thirds of IT leaders from health systems, hospitals, and other large healthcare organizations reported that they currently utilize the cloud or cloud services at their...
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Credentialing: An Industry of Change
How change has and is impacting the Credentialing industry. ...
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Tap into the Value of Integrating Enrollment and Credentialing with VerityStream's Enroll
VerityStream’s Enroll solution offers the largest (5,000+), continuously updated library of pre-formatted payer applications to enable easy automated form completion....
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Ready to be a hero? Power up your hospital’s compliance efforts with Workforce Validation from VerityStream
Are you confident that you’re properly validating not only your providers, but your entire workforce? Including all your employees, vendors, volunteers, students and others?...
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2018 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment
We continue to see organizations implementing new strategies to decrease costs and accelerate revenue, and this trend toward implementing new solutions will continue into 2019 and...
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Learning From Those Who Weathered The Storm
Every healthcare facility has a disaster plan, but the size and scope of those can vary greatly. The most forward-thinking hospitals have a comprehensive strategy that includes...
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Aim Higher with Your Privileging and Credentialing Solution: Maximizing the Platform, Content, and Data with VerityStream
The time is now to consider a solution which will keep you at the forefront of your industry while enabling you to focus on adding more value to your organization and to provide...
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Hospital Value-Based Purchasing and OPPE: The Quality Connection
Do you know how Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services measures the four quality domains of healthcare? Learn more about the qualities measured and how Ongoing Professional...
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2018 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment - Industry Wide Opportunities for Improvement
Exploring the results of our 2018 annual provider enrollment survey and discuss the Industry-wide opportunities for improvement that were revealed....
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Privileging Telemedicine Providers: Where the Industry Stands in 2018
This webinar is focused on key pressure points experienced by today’s healthcare organizations related to determining how telemedicine and telehealth providers will be permitted to...
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How to Keep Current When It Comes to CME
Have you ever asked what are the requirements surrounding continuing medical education? All states require CME for license registration, and most states require CME for license...
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Introducing VerityStream for Medical Groups: You Can’t Afford to Miss This
VerityStream's enterprise-wide, SaaS solution that enables everyone in your organization with a stake in ensuring your patients get competent care to collaboratively manage the...
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Revenue Cycle Management Is Keeping CFOs Up at Night
There have been a number of events in recent years that have put increased pressure on revenue cycle management in the healthcare industry—not the least of which was the recent...
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Dreaming of a One-Stop Validation Solution for Providers AND Your Entire Workforce?
Learn how adopting a centralized, single source-of-truth of verified and automatically-updated provider and workforce data can transform your healthcare organization....
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The Role of the CVO in a Merger or Acquisition
Is your medical office prepared to take the relationship to the next step? The integration of two or more credentialing databases will be one of the most significant efforts in...
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Disaster Learnings: 2017 North Bay Fire and the Closure of the Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center
Discussion on preparedness when disasters strike and the credentialing processes used for locum tenens privileging and physician traveler coverage....
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A Glimpse Into Banner Health's CVO
Learn how Banner Health System made data integrity a priority for their organization and eliminated many of the common threats that a healthcare organization faces when they don’t...
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What is Your Single Source of Truth for Enterprise-Wide Credentialing, Privileging, and Enrollment?
A panel of healthcare executives recently estimated that forty percent of the national healthcare spend is a waste. This amounts to 1.3 trillion dollars of waste every year. For...
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Inconsistent Provider Rosters Threaten Revenue and Compliance
Have you ever asked your credentialing office for an updated provider roster? The request is not as simple as it sounds. Learn more about our best practices in our white paper....
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The Perils of Being a Late Adopter
Late adopters start using new technology and business processes after many others, if not most, have already done so. Change can be scary but waiting too long to adopt may not in...
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The Benefits of Cloud
Switching to the cloud can help organizations in more ways than one. Improved security capability, the ability to quickly meet business demands, and improving service levels and...
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The State of the Industry: Medical Staff Credentialing
Are you looking to improve your provider credentialing process? Download our infographic to better understand the state of the industry and how your organization can benefit from...
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2018 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing
The credentialing process has been around for decades, but is continuously changing. This annual report shows how the process has changed and what the credentialing process needs...
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How to Automate Your Medical Staff Office
Discover how VerityStream keeps up with the State of the Industry in credentialing, enrollment and privileging. ...
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10 Tips for Evaluating Your Privileging System
One of the most difficult tasks that medical staff organizations face is designing an effective clinical privileging system. Leverage these tips and make sure you are making the...
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The CVO: 6 Essentials for Achieving Rapid and Successful Centralization
The credentialing process can be a very complicated and long process. Renee Zimmerman gives us her keys to making the process succeed....
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Medical Staff Clinical Privileging
Discover 4 ways to improve compliance of your clinical privileging process....
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Accelerate the Provider Enrollment Process
In order to reach the overall goal of reducing enrollment times and increasing provider satisfaction, over half of provider enrollment professionals believe that the provider...
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Who, what, and where? How redundancy in the healthcare industry is costing millions.
Healthcare companies are currently wasting millions of dollars because work is being repeated and expertise is not being shared. If your company is using multiple systems to verify...
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2018 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing
In late 2017, VerityStream conducted a survey of healthcare organizations that perform credentialing. We are ready to release the findings. Join us for this important webinar and...
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VerityStream, Truth Within Reach: Solving the Provider Data Dilemma
The healthcare industry is wrestling with immense uncertainty. Join us for an introduction to our company, our unique positioning in the marketplace, our solutions, and our...
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Strategies and Methods to Accelerate Reimbursement
Medical groups are looking to accelerate reimbursement and increase revenue. Discover the strategies and methods employed by healthcare industry leaders to ensure success....
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Best Practices for Managing and Using Credentialing Data
Managing credentialing data efficiently is essential for credentialing professionals to reduce turnaround times and reduce the need for extra FTEs. Our industry experts reveal the...
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How to Manage Disruptive Providers on Your Staff
In depth discussion regarding disruptive provider behavior in the healthcare sector including steps on how to manage, sanction, rehabilitate these providers. ...
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Data Integrity – Is Your Provider Data The Source of Truth in Your Organization?
Is your provider database your organization's source of truth or source of hassle? Learn how the integrity of your database can make or break your organization. ...
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Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Credentialing
Outsourcing your CVO can be a big deal. Here is why and when your organization should consider doing that and what questions and considerations need to be addressed before making...
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Strategies for Obtaining Value-Added Information for Your Credentialing Process
Learn about the history of Professional References and Privileges, and how they have had a significant impact on our credentialing processes today. Our presenters will dive into...
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2017 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing
This webinar covers the survey results from 900 MSPs, delivering key trends, understanding on how organizations can work together to improve support and respond to issues facing...
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3 Credentials Verification Organization Workflow Methodologies
Determine the best credentials verification and application process for your CVO....
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5 Credentials Verification Organization Communication Best Practices
Best practices to facilitate seamless communication and workflow between the CVO and the hospital leaders and providers....
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5 Benefits of a Credentials Verification Organization
Overworked and short staffed? Consider the many benefits of using a Credentials Verification Organization to perform credentialing and recredentialing activities....
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4 Credentials Verification Organization Services Your Organization Should Be Using
Enhance your credentialing abilities by leveraging the benefits of a credentials verification organization....
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5 Credentials Verification Organization Application Processes
Determine the best application processes for your healthcare organization....
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Credentials Verification Organizations by the Numbers
Benchmark metrics for credentials verification organizations....
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2017 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment
Industry report for medical groups, hospitals, and healthcare organizations who are actively seeking solutions to improve provider enrollment efficiency....
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Top Five Changes in Credentialing Due to the Increased Numbers of Employed Practitioners
Industry experts discuss the impact of mergers and increased number of employed physicians on credentialing processes in today's healthcare environment....
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Are You Thinking About Tele-Staffing for Your CVO? Top Ten Things You Should Consider
Industry experts discuss how to incorporate tele-staffing into your CVO effectively....
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Planning, Executing, and Presenting Meaningful Credentialing Reports
Industry experts dive into the best practices for planning, executing and presenting meaningful credentialing reports for your hospital....
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Are your leaders asking you to synergize?
Industry experts discuss the power of the master provider database and how your credentialing office can leverage this within other departments within your organization....
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Provider Credentialing & Enrollment Impact on Revenue Cycle
Why provider enrollment is now an important part of the revenue cycle according to healthcare research. ...
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Automate your Credentialing Process with the Credentialing Automation Tool Belt
Paperless credentialing tips to help your healthcare organization save both time and money while multiplying productivity and efficiency....
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The Ultimate Guide to Paperless Credentialing
Discover nine tools which can help your organization transition to paperless credentialing!...
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Standardization Needed for Credentialing and Provider Enrollment
Addressing the need for more standardization within medical staff office to improve provider onboarding, credentialing, and enrollment....
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The Inefficiency of Manual Provider Enrollment Applications
Approximately 18 payer applications need to be processed for every provider. If your facility has 250 providers and you spend a full business day collecting data and processing...
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Key Metrics of the Credentialing Office
The numbers don’t lie – credentialing is a tough job. Learn about the state of the provider credentialing industry & how automation plays a part in our infographic....
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The Cost of Provider Onboarding
A growing number of U.S. doctors are leaving private practice for hospital employment. While the hospital may be paying a salary to its new physician beginning on day one of...
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5 Key Components of Credentialing System Interoperability
This whitepaper describes the key components required to enable credentialing systems to achieve interoperability across the healthcare enterprise....
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2017 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment: Top Ten Discoveries Revealed
Industry experts review the top ten discoveries from the 2017 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment....
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2017 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing
This report's findings show that organizations are working diligently to improve their credentialing processes, although most have yet to complete their efforts....
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2016 Annual Report on Provider Enrollment
Research reveals the current and changing environment of credentialing, provider enrollment, delegated credentialing for hospitals and medical groups....
