Notable Timeframes
Compliance and Regulation
Terminology/Acronyms and Their meaning
Random Facts
Misc. Trivia
100

If it is greater than 6 months, an explanation is required.

What is Work History Gap?

100

The minimum insurance requirements for a practitioner.

What is 100k/300k?

100

ECFMG

What is Educational Commission of Foreign Medical Graduates?


100

This is required if you are a behavioral health practitioner that treats foster care children.

What is DFPS 1600 Form?

100

This popular television show's cast included Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Barry Williams, and Christopher Knight, to name a few. 

What is The Brady Bunch?

200

An attestation is deemed expired once it ages past this timeframe.

What is 180 days?

200

A database operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that contains medical malpractice payment and adverse action reports on health care professionals.

What is NPDB?

200

CRNA

What is Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist?

200

This animal gets its color from the food that it consumes.

What is a Flamingo?

200

I am the tallest Mountain in the world.

What is Mt. Everest?

300

The average length of an internship.

What is 1-Year?

300

In order to practice medicine, this must remain active.

What is License?

300

DFPS

What is Texas Department of Family Protective Services?

300

The First woman to win a grammy.

Who is Ella Fitzgerald?

300

I am considered the United States' 18th state.

What is Louisiana?

400

A Medicare opt-out Affidavit is active for this length of time.

What is 2-years?

400

This policy must reflect the practitioner as a named insured.

What is their professional liability insurance policy?

400

CAQH

What is Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare? "Online Credentialing Portal"

400

Formed from deposits of pre-existing rocks or pieces of once-living organism that accumulate on the Earth's surface.

What are Sedimentary Rocks?

400

A feeling or state of having already experienced the present situation.

What is Deja Vu?

500

Non-Clean File look-back period.

What is 5 Years?

500

Must be active and "fresh" at the time of Medical Director or Credentialing Committee approval.

What are PSVs/Credentialing documents? (I.E. application, attestation, license, insurance)  

500

Since its 1976 establishment, It has been at the forefront of the Nation's efforts to fight waste, fraud and abuse and to improving the efficiency of Medicare, Medicaid and more than 100 other Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) programs.  The majority of the agency’s resources go towards the oversight of Medicare and Medicaid — programs that represent a significant part of the Federal budget and that affect this country's most vulnerable citizens.

What is Federal Office of the Inspector General?

500

Better than Michael Jackson

Who is Prince?

500

I am the closest planet to the Sun.

What is Mercury?