Compliance leaders moving between health plans and traditional insurance often carry assumptions that do not transfer. Drug testing is one of the clearest examples. In traditional insurance, drug screening programs are frequently minimal or absent altogether. In managed care, drug testing sits ... Read More
Category: Healthcare Compliance
For decades, background screening has worked the same way: an employer places an order, a provider runs the checks, a report comes back, the report gets filed. Then, the next time that same clinician takes a new assignment, the process ... Read More
June 15, 2026Ashley McManus
Most of the healthcare organizations and staffing firms we work with are not running outdated processes because they do not care about efficiency. They are running them because the processes were built for a workforce that no longer looks the ... Read More
June 8, 2026Ashley McManus
Most conversations in background screening focus on the same short list: faster turnaround times, new AI features, cleaner candidate experiences, better platform integrations. Those things matter, but there's a quieter factor that often determines whether real innovation actually happens, and ... Read More
May 11, 2026Ashley McManus
A "good enough" background check might actually be good enough for a lot of industries: healthcare is not one of them.
Place a clinician at the bedside, send a caregiver into a patient's home, or staff a critical hospital department, and ... Read More
May 4, 2026Ashley McManus
AI is everywhere in 2026. Every vendor pitch deck seems to promise "AI-powered" everything; faster decisions, lower costs, fewer errors. Background screening is no exception.
But if you're responsible for hiring in healthcare or healthcare staffing, you can't afford to adopt ... Read More
April 27, 2026Ashley McManus
A recap of a joint Universal Background Screening & Verisys webinar
The headlines keep coming.
Another healthcare organization fined for employing an excluded provider. A health plan forced to repay millions for claims tied to a sanctioned clinician. A large system struggling ... Read More
April 13, 2026Ashley McManus
Candidate Fraud and Identity in 2026: Getting It Right Without Breaking the Experience
If you lead a healthcare system or a healthcare staffing firm, you've almost certainly felt it by now: candidate fraud is no longer a fringe issue. It comes ... Read More
April 1, 2026Ashley McManus
How embedded compliance in background screening protects healthcare staffing firms — without slowing down clinical hiring
There's a conversation happening in healthcare staffing organizations across the country, usually between a compliance manager and a recruiter, and it usually goes something like ... Read More
March 20, 2026Ashley McManus
For years, background screening has centered on a single deliverable: the report. A candidate gets ordered, checks get run, data gets gathered, and out comes a bundled document covering everything from criminal records to occupational health results. In plenty of ... Read More
March 5, 2026Ashley McManus










