Healthcare Sanctions Screening

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Healthcare Sanctions Checks

In the healthcare industry, a basic background check isn’t enough to protect your patients and business. In any clinic or hospital, you need candidates with the education, training, licensing, and integrity necessary to give your patients the highest level of care. Even professionals with a valid medical license can be under sanctions from various organizations, so these searches are critical.

Screen your new hires to verify their eligibility and reveal any undisclosed adverse actions or exclusions with FACIS, the industry’s most accurate and trusted exclusion and sanctions dataset. FACIS searches more than 3,500 primary sources – from federal sources like OIG, GSA-SAM, and the FBI to board records and local meeting minutes, giving you the most complete picture of each candidate.

Accurate offer both FACIS search types: FACIS’ 1M dataset is traditionally used for employees, contractors, or entities that are non-licensed. FACIS 3 is traditionally used for licensed employees, contractors, or entities.

Get results in real-time and streamline compliance decisions for your organization, while mitigating waste, fraud and abuse.

What Is a Healthcare Sanctions Check? How Healthcare Sanctions Checks Protect Your Organization

Healthcare sanctions are regulatory tools that aim to maintain the integrity of the healthcare industry and improve patient safety, by ensuring that only competent and ethical professionals are allowed to practice medicine. The healthcare sanctions list includes, but is not limited to, individuals that have been convicted of healthcare and Medicare fraud, patient neglect and abuse, and patient-related medical misconduct.

Healthcare sanctions checks can protect you and your organization in many ways:

  • Improved Patient Safety: Identify individuals with past disciplinary actions on their records that could compromise patient safety and lead to potential harm.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Sanctions checks help your organization comply with healthcare regulations and minimize the risk of regulatory violations, hefty fines and penalties.
  • Reputation Protection: A clinic or hospital’s reputation can suffer serious damage by hiring sanctioned individuals. Screenings and ongoing monitoring help to maintain your credibility.
  • Risk Mitigation: Sanction checks help reduce risks from hiring those convicted of crimes or barred from federal programs, reducing the risk of lawsuits or fines.
  • Quality Assurance: Consistent screenings ensure that only qualified and eligible candidates are part of your healthcare organization, improving the quality of care for patients.

Why Healthcare Sanctions Matter For Medical Professionals

Sanctioning bodies, like medical boards and nursing councils, impose the sanctions and maintain the names of sanctioned professionals, so that clinics like yours can make more well-informed hiring decisions and pick providers your patients can trust.

Sanctions send a clear message that misconduct is not tolerated among healthcare professionals. However, those sanctions are only effective if hiring clinics and hospitals can identify them quickly with an in-depth healthcare sanctions check and continuous monitoring.

Penalties for sanctioned individuals can range from fines and exclusion from specific programs to license revocation, depending on how severe the violation is.

Not all sanctioned individuals are barred from practicing. But understanding when, why, and by whom a professional was sanctioned is vital information when hiring medical professionals. Accurate offers clear and in-depth reports about a professional’s history, providing the context you need for essential employment decisions.

What Healthcare Sanctions Checks Show

Sanction screenings can reveal crucial information about your employees or employment candidates, including criminal, employment, educational, and professional history. Healthcare checks can reveal these key elements:

  • Fraud Abuse Control Information System (FACIS) check: Shows instances of fraudulent activity or abuse in the healthcare sector.
  • Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) check: Identifies individuals under specific sanctions or considered a threat to national security.
  • State-specific debarment or exclusions: Shows individuals or entities barred from participation in healthcare programs in a specific state.

Routine Sanction Screenings and Continuous Monitoring for Medical Staff

Pre-hire screenings identify potential red flags among new employees. But sanction screenings are not something your organization should only do once. Periodic rescreening and continuous monitoring can quickly reveal any incident that raises concerns about a current employee’s status, conduct and eligibility to practice.

Monitoring provides a streamlined approach to obtaining ongoing program exclusion information and insights to help ensure individuals continue to meet guidelines. With ongoing monitoring, organizations don’t need to wait for the results of periodic rescreens before identifying and responding to potential issues.

Contact Accurate to learn more about our healthcare sanctions checks and how we can help you protect your clinic, reputation, and patients.

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Whether you’re new to background screening or looking for a better solution, our healthcare expert Dawson Pulliam is here to help you. Get a free consultation today to see how Accurate can help your healthcare organization onboard candidates faster and ensure your clinical staff is properly licensed.

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Disclaimer

The commentary above is not offered as legal advice but is instead offered for informational purposes. Accurate Background is not a law firm and does not offer legal advice. The above commentary is therefore not intended as a substitute for the legal advice of an attorney knowledgeable of the user’s individual circumstances or to provide legal advice. Accurate Background makes no assurances regarding the accuracy, completeness, currency, or utility of the preceding information.

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