Accreditation

URAC releases guidelines to gauge consumer protection efforts of healthcare organizations

Published in Biotech Business Week, October 9th, 2006

URAC has called for public comment on an initial set of healthcare management service measures, which will be applied across nine of URAC's accreditation programs. The goal of the proposed program is to create and maintain healthcare management services measures to promote consumer protection and quality improvement.

URAC is the independent, nonprofit organization who conducts healthcare quality activities through its accreditation and certification programs. The proposed measurement program will be applied to URAC accreditation programs for health plan, health network, health utilization management, case management, disease management, health call center, independent...

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Source: Biotech Business Week (2006-10-09)

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