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are as simple as faxing or emailing these
instructions to querying entities .
Cost and time savings in responding to
affiliation requests is just one benefit of
the NAMSS PASSTM . Now think of the time
spent verifying a practitioner’s affiliation
through another facility . Not only is
there a cost to review the practitioner’s
application carefully, query the listed
affiliations and wait for responses with
often second and third requests, there is
also a tremendous cost in lost revenue for
each day a practitioner is waiting to be
credentialed . The same 15-hospital system
has estimated that it often took a week
for a response to faxed affiliation requests
from facilities that did not have web-based
systems . As we all know, verification of
a practitioner’s affiliations is often the
last verification we receive and could
easily lead to a month’s delay in getting a
practitioner approved and in practice due
to the timing of the necessary meetings for
the approval process .

The director of a CVO for a large 15-hospital
system has estimated that they spent an
average of 15 minutes to respond to each
affiliation request.
The NAMSS PASSTM allows you or your
staff to immediately print good standing
letters on the contributing hospital
letterhead, if a letter for that practitioner
is available . That means no more faxing
requests for affiliation verification and no
more waiting for responses . At only $3 per
letter (there are even greater savings when
you sign up for subscription services) to
print affiliation letters instantly, think of
the potential savings (in terms of reducing
lost revenue) by credentialing your
practitioners faster .

to still use that system and also upload your
data into the NAMSS PASSTM . The transition
to NAMSS PASSTM will be easy and we
will be working with vendors to make that
happen . Far greater than the cost savings is
the opportunity to increase patient safety
by creating a comprehensive gap analysis
of all practitioners’ affiliations utilizing one
resource . Just imagine if you had access to a
complete affiliation history and gap analysis
for the practitioners you credential and you
could easily identify any red flags . Help
NAMSS raise the bar in patient safety . ■

For facilities who already have implemented
an auto response system, we encourage you

NAMSS would like to recognize the following NAMSS PASSTM Participants:
Baltimore Washington Medical Center

Summit Health Surgery Center

Bartlett Regional Hospital – Juneau AK

Meadows Regional Medical Center, Inc.

Summit Health – Summit Physician Services

Community Hospital

Memorial Hospital

Summit Health – Waynesboro Hospital

Daviess Community Hospital

Memorial Hospital South Bend

Texas Health Harris Methodist

Duke Raleigh Hospital

Mercy Hospital Cassville

Fort Worth Hospital

Eastern Long Island Hospital

Mercy Hospital Springfield

Tomball Regional Medical Center

Elliot Hospital – Manchester, NH

Mercy Willard Hospital

TRMC

Fauquier Hospital

Northwest Surgical Hospital

UMass Memorial Health Care

Flagler Hospital

Palm Drive Hospital

United Hospital System

Fletcher Allen Health Care

Ransom Memorial Hospital

WakeMed Cary Hospital

Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Inc.

Rex Healthcare

WakeMed Raleigh Campus

Froedtert Surgery Center, LLC

Rush Oak Park Hospital

Watertown Regional Medical Center

Gibson Area Hospital

Sacred Heart Hospital

Wayne HealthCare

Jackson Co. Memorial Hospital

Suburban Hospital: SOSC

Willamette Dental Group, P.C. (53 Locations)

LifeCare Hospitals of Wisconsin

Suburban Hospital

Willamette Valley Medical Center

Marshall Medical Center

Sullivan County Community Hospital

Witham Memorial Hospital

McBride Orthopedic Hospital

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McCullough-Hyde Hospital

Summit Health – Chambersburg Hospital

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