URAC's International Credentialing Vendor Certification -- An Overview

As a URAC news release of a few weeks ago indicated, there is a new certification program available for international vendors of credentialing services.  Aparently, URAC has detected a need for some URAC-accredited companies to have certification of its international vendors who take on some of the labor-intensive aspects of the provider credentialing process. 

To gain certification, an international credentialing vendor will go through a mini-accreditation review.  At least at first, it seems that such applicants will not face an onsite review.  Rather, in addition to a special application for this certification program, applicants will need to comply with all of the Core standards as well eight of the standards from the credentialing section of the current Health Plan standards, P-CR 5-10, 12, and 14.  

Integral Healthcare Solutions is in the midst of a conducting research into the phenomenon of international credentialing vendors.  We will release the results of our research within a few weeks.  Our early results are pretty interesting, but we'll not jump to any conclusions until we're a bit farther along in our research.  Let us know at info@integralhs.com if you would like to get a copy of our report.  Or, just subscribe to this blog (yes, it's still free!), as we'll be publishing those results here.