Medical credentialing involves the often lengthy process that health care entities undergo to review and verify every piece of information that documents the ability for a provider to practice medicine, including their education, post-education training, specialty certificates, licenses, and career history, including sanctions and litigation. The method involves intense, laborious scrutiny of credentials to prevent.
As we look back on the first half of 2021, it is clear that healthcare changed at rapid rates. Not entirely out of the circumstances surrounding the global pandemic, but because of advancements in technology. While technology drives a lot of the healthcare industry, there are economic trends that are affecting healthcare as a whole..
If the pandemic taught the healthcare industry anything, it’s that every process does not have to be handled in-house and outsourcing may be their much-needed saving grace. Take billing processes, for example, the staff dedicated to those processes are always up to their neck with tracking payments, keeping up with the government’s current health guidelines.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will resonate through healthcare for years to come, now that the initial shock has come to an end. For many independent practices and smaller healthcare systems, the pandemic caused great financial hardship that will be tough to overcome. What this means is that there is a growing divide between.