{"id":15757,"date":"2021-10-12T14:38:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T18:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=15757"},"modified":"2021-10-12T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T18:38:57","slug":"watson-clinic-credentialing-department-earns-accreditation-by-ncqa-through-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/10\/12\/watson-clinic-credentialing-department-earns-accreditation-by-ncqa-through-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson Clinic Credentialing Department Earns Accreditation by NCQA Through 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Watson Clinic\u2019s Credentialing department recently earned a three-year reaccreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).&nbsp; Valid through the year 2024, this accreditation was granted following a thorough survey process during which the department\u2019s policies, filing practices, and quality improvement measures were evaluated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Credentialing-department.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Credentialing-department.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Credentialing-department.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Credentialing-department.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Credentialing-department.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" \/><figcaption>Loretta Patzner, Credentialing Specialist<br>Candi Wright, Credentialing Specialist<br>Kimberly Stebbins, PESC, CPCS, Manager, Credentialing\/Provider Enrollment<br>Jennifer Gaona, PESC, Provider Enrollment Specialist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watson Clinic\u2019s Credentialing department works to verify a physician\u2019s qualifications, education record, various licenses, and their ability to perform the services for which they are hired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis accreditation assures our community that Watson Clinic\u2019s credentialing practices meet the highest quality standards in the nation,\u201d says Kimberly Stebbins, Manager of Watson Clinic\u2019s Credentialing department. \u201cIn fact, our department earned the highest score in all categories from the NCQA on this evaluation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NCQA is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans, managed behavioral healthcare organizations, preferred provider organizations, new health plans, physician organizations, credentials verification organizations, disease management programs and other health-related programs.&nbsp; NCQA Certification statuses and other information on healthcare quality can be obtained on their website at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.ncqa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Watson Clinic\u2019s Credentialing department recently earned a three-year reaccreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).&nbsp; Valid through the year 2024, this accreditation was granted following a thorough survey&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1394],"class_list":["post-15757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-watson-clinic-credentialing-department-earns-accreditation-by-ncqa-through-2024"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}