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namss focus

The support among leaders and professional
associations within our industry is growing
very quickly.
The benefits to you and your organization
include:
* Improving patient safety and quality by
permitting a comprehensive gap analysis
* Raising the national credentialing standard
* Uniting the credentialing community
* Reducing the legal risk for negligent
credentialing
* Providing instantaneous verification
information
* Creating a best practice affiliation letter
for the credentialing community
* Establishing a national definition for
"good standing"
* Creating efficiency in the verification
process
* Reducing practitioner on-boarding delays
* Eliminating unnecessary costs in the system

ACCREDITATION

ALLIANCE

* Demonstrating the significance of the role
of the MSP
For the NAMSS PASS™ to be successful, we
need all healthcare entities to participate as
Contributing Entities by simply submitting
their affiliation history to the repository. There
is no cost to become a Contributing Entity,
and you can still use your own database.
With your help and support, NAMSS PASS™
will be a comprehensive, centralized,
primary source database containing a
practitioners' affiliation history for their
entire career. As experts in credentialing,
we are establishing industry best practices
to both improve patient safety and
mitigate potential risks associated with
the practitioners we are considering for
credentials. With everyone's participation,
you will instantaneously have a full history

of a practitioner. No more dependency on
incorrect information from a practitioner
trying to hide something.
How much is patient safety worth to your
organization? How much is it worth to
protect even one patient from a practitioner
you know should not be practicing?
Information about NAMSS PASS™,
including tools to present to your
management team, good standing letter
options, and Frequently Asked Questions,
can be found on NAMSS.org. ■

Connie Riedel, BS, CPMSM,
CPCS, is a Past President NAMSS
and Chair of the NAMSS PASS
Task Force.

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