Onboard Quickly with Rapid Background Checks

Healthcare is a highly regulated industry, often requiring extensive background and criminal records screening and monitoring of vendors, contractors, employees, and volunteers.

Adding to the complexity of managing all those resources, navigating an abundance of changing state and local regulations can prove challenging. This is why it’s helpful to have a screening provider who is well-versed in the background screening requirements for the healthcare industry.

First Advantage Knows Healthcare

First Advantage Healthcare Exclusions, Actions, and Licensure (First Advantage HEAL™) is our most comprehensive search package for the healthcare industry and can be used for pre-employment screening, rescreening, and monitoring. HEAL features more than 5,000 sources including, but not limited to:

• Board Actions
• Medicaid/Medicare Sanctions & Debarments
• State and Federal Level Sanctions from Office of Inspector General (OIG)/General Services Administration (GSA)

Easily Verify Practitioner Credentials

You want to onboard qualified healthcare professionals with increased speed and confidence, but you’re handling this time-consuming and complicated task internally and assigning staff to confirm education, experience, licensure, and sanction information.

Keep credentialing easy by adding a license credential check to a routine background screening package. First Advantage can get you a fast and comprehensive view of professional candidates, along with any accompanying documentation, when available, direct from the credentialing source, all in one place.

At First Advantage, we understand the importance of Primary Source Verification. We verify the status of credentials and source materials in real time so the information you receive is current  and actionable.

First Advantage partners with organizations that are accredited by both the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and URAC, an independent, nonprofit accreditation entity.

Below are a few examples of some products to support credentialing:

• Application & Attestation Processing
• Licensure Verification
• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)/Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS) Verification
• Certification Verification
• National Provider Identifier Records (NPI)
• Education and Training/Board Certifications
• Work History
• Employment Verification
• Occupational Registries
• Sex Offender
• Child/Adult Abuse Registries
• Malpractice Claims History / National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
• Medicare/Medicaid Sanctions
• Board Sanctions

Drug & Health Screens

Our pre-employment drug and health screening features fast and simple collections, exams and straightforward results to give you the information you need.

We also help coordinate physicals, inoculations, and related records for all individuals based on job requirements.

Services include:

• Occupational Health
• Multiple Panel Testing Options
• Instant Oral Drug Testing
• Instant Alcohol Testing
• Laboratory Testing
• Electronic Chain of Custody Forms
• Drug & Alcohol Program Management
• Medical Review Officer (MRO) Services
• DOT Driver Qualification File Compliance Management
• Medical Services

We offer instant and virtual screening options and can provide panel recommendations to best meet your needs, and leverage more than 22,000 testing locations across the United States.