Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC)

Accreditation. Certification. Confidence For All.

The Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that supports quality patient care by offering Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-deemed accreditation for businesses and highly valued DMEPOS certifications for professionals.

Accredit a DME/HME Facility with BOC. BOC provides guidance from experts to DME and HME suppliers seeking to earn or maintain accreditation—from application to site survey to reaccreditation. BOC offers in-person and expedited site surveys and is recognized by Medicare, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other third-party payers. Plus, BOC-accredited businesses receive personalized assistance as their business grows, making it easy to add new product categories in compliance with CMS policies and standards.

Reassign an Accreditation with BOC. BOC’s in-house reassignment experts are available to answer questions and provide support throughout the reassignment process.

Earn a Professional Certification with BOC. Becoming certified as a provider or employing certified professionals not only differentiates an HME business from the competition, but also supports compliance with Medicare Human Resource Quality Standards. Get certified as a BOC durable medical equipment specialist (CDME).

BOC credentials assure patients, physicians, government agencies/representatives and the public at large of the competence, professionalism and safe practices followed by BOC-certified professionals and BOC-accredited businesses. With national renown and ten prestigious Stevie Awards earned for innovation and outstanding customer service, BOC is committed to ensuring its standards of excellence are mirrored in every area of service.

The Compliance Team

DMEPOS Retailer Certification

There is a potential gap in quality for retailers that are not billing Medicare and so are not required to attain CMS-approved DMEPOS accreditation. From the retailer perspective, this certification program helps standardize quality processes and services at a DMEPOS organization, ensuring safety for a provider’s customers. From the customer’s perspective, the certification enables them to make better choices when buying online or in the provider’s store. They see the Exemplary Provider Certification logo on a provider’s website or in their store window and feel secure that a provider’s processes have been certified by a nationally recognized third party.

Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC)

Credential

Credential program aims to help DME/HME professionals boost their career

Offered by BOC for DME/HME providers and medical equipment professionals, this credential demonstrates an industry professional’s knowledge and expertise in the DME/HME field, from prescription verification to billing and documentation. Seasoned DME professionals who meet the prerequisites can apply and take the exam right away.

Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)

Medicare Accreditation

Accreditation services that add value to HME provider businesses

With a long experience providing Medicare accreditation in HME, ACHC is introducing packages that help providers to select the resources they need to meet standards for quality and safety while building their business. Resources include on-demand employee training, policy review, and customized education sessions with Education + Accreditation.

Allegiance Group

COLLECTPlus

Accreditation program helps clinical respiratory providers drive better outcomes

COLLECTPlus is a patient pay billing and collection solution for the HME industry. COLLECTPlus drives cash recovery and staff efficiency with billing and collection workflows customized to meet specific business needs. COLLECTPlus integrates with your billing software and offers a management dashboard, patient payment portal and domestic call center services. The portal provides patient payment and communication options with account access for self-management. The dashboard creates at-a-glance transparency for critical performance reporting.

The Compliance Team

DMEPOS Certification

Program offers DMEPOS certification for non-Medicare providers

The Compliance Team’s newest certification program is set up as a quality assurance program for online DMEPOS suppliers who are not billing Medicare. This new certification helps standardize quality processes at the DMEPOS organization and ensures safety for their patients. Certification acts as quality validation to the company’s online and mail order customers that the supplier has been certified by an independent, third party. DMEPOS certification differs from DMEPOS accreditation in that certification covers only those aspects of the business that are directly related to intake and delivery. Cerification is for two years.

Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)

Clinical Respiratory Patient Management and Custom Mobility

ACHC launches two new DMEPOS accreditation distinctions

National accreditor Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) has launched two accreditation distinctions for DMEPOS organizations, offering comprehensive solutions to increasing demands for accountability and better patient care. The distinction in Clinical Respiratory Patient Management puts emphasis on a collaborative, teams-based approach that encompasses assessment, treatment, documentation, and education to enhance quality of life and reduce hospital readmissions. The distinction in Custom Mobility focuses on responsive care and services that improve activities of daily living and quality of life for patients requiring mobility support.

The Compliance Team

Patient Centered Respiratory Home

Accreditation standards designed for respiratory providers

Patient-Centered Respiratory Home (PCRH) is a proprietary accreditation that sets in place quality standards that guide clinical respiratory providers to better engage with chronic care patients. Better outcomes are driven through additional care planning and focused follow-up visits with program goals being three-fold: address poor respiratory care management; decrease emergency department visits; lower the number of hospital readmissions. PCRH’s standards enhance patient management practices through concise measures that cover access issues, provider coordination, and communication between respiratory specialists and prescribers.

Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)

Distinction in Clinical Respiratory Patient Management

New distinctions for DMEPOSaccredited providers

Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) has developed two new distinctions for DMEPOS-accredited organizations. The Distinction in Clinical Respiratory Patient Management, a recognition that allows providers to demonstrate expertise in managing respiratory conditions, and the Distinction in Custom Mobility, a designation that recognizes first-rate providers of custom mobility products, will further help providers demonstrate their commitment to patients’ quality of life. Each of these distinctions is available to providers accredited under the ACHC DMEPOS program.

The Compliance Team

Pharmacy Testing Certification

In response to the “new normal” in pharmacies across the country, The Compliance Team’s Pharmacy Testing Certification program (a new Exemplary Provider recognition award) aims to help to keep pharmacies on the leading edge of patient protection. The Pharmacy Testing Certification program provides pharmacies with the education and tools necessary to achieve Pharmacy Testing Certification for COVID-19 and other CLIA Waived tests. It offers pharmacies new revenue opportunities via Point of Care testing and Collect and Transfer testing. As a certified pharmacy testing facility, the pharmacy assures its customers, patients, payers, and employees that its pharmacy testing quality and safety procedures have been validated by a nationally recognized third party.

This is a stand-alone certification program, so a pharmacy need not be accredited by The Compliance Team for any other service. However, those pharmacies that are currently accredited by The Compliance Team will be ahead of the game in that the Pharmacy Testing Certification standards retain many aspect parts of the more stringent Exemplary Provider accreditation standards.