Best Practices Conferences

The CAQH Universal Credentialing Datasource Best Practices Conferences have been held annually since 2005. The Best Practices Conference is an event where health plans and other healthcare organizations share information for maximizing system effectiveness and return on investment. Industry experts outline best practices for increasing UCD adoption, improving workflows and automating data integration.

Topics discussed at the Best Practices Conferences are listed below. Please click on a topic to read summaries from the conference presentations.

2007 Best Practices Conference

• Executive Summary
• Impact of UCD on Providers
Special Report: Outside Perspectives
• Impact of UCD on Providers: The View from MGMA and a Group Practice
• Growing your own Interface
• Improving Initial Provider Credentialing Processing: Aetna's CAQH Data Integration
• Making Data Accessible and Accurate: WellPoint's Automated Data Integration
• Accreditors Vantage Point
• The Accreditors’ Vantage Point: Managing the Future
• CAQH and Credentialing Software
• Roster Accuracy, Paperless Efficiency: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Portico Systems
• Streamlining Re-credentialing: Independence Blue Cross and Cactus
• Bringing UCD Data Into an Image-Based Credentialing Sytem:Medical Mutual of Ohio and Vistar Technologies
• Metrics
• Making Value Visible: The UCD Metrics Model
• Beyond Credentialing: Spreading the Value of UCD Data
• View the full 2007 Best Practices Conference Report

2006 Best Practices Conference

• Increasing Provider Adoption
• How to Get Providers to Get with the Program (CIGNA)
• Out with the Old...Making Legacy Syustem Change Work (Excellus)
• Implementing the National Provider Identifier
• NPI: A Look at the Basics and the Future (Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan)
• Taking the Sting Out of NPI: How the UCD Can Help (CAQH)
• Using CAQH's SanctionsTrack to Streamline Ongoing Monitoring
• Realizing Cost Savings and Efficiency through Use of the CAQH SanctionsTrack Service (Aetna)
• Streamlining the Sanctions Monitoring Process (Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan)
• Building an Interface for the DAS
• Integrating CAQH with an Internally Developed Managed Care System (Health Plan of Michigan)
• Maintaining Provider Data
• Getting It Together: Improving Workflow with CAQH (WellPoint)
• Keeping It Simple: Creating Customized Internal Reports (Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan)
• View the full 2006 Best Practices Conference Report

2005 Best Practices Conference

• View the full 2005 Best Practices Conference Report

Building on the success of the Universal Credentialing Datasource Best Practices Conferences, CAQH is introducing an Administrative Simplification Conference in 2008. The Administrative Simplification Conference features sessions in two tracks. The Universal Credentialing Datasource (UCD) track will discuss credentialing solutions and broader business applications for provider data. Track Two will focus on industry administrative challenges that the CAQH Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) is working to address.