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Phone: 1-319-384-9291
Hours: Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The Clinical Staff Office provides a number of credentialing services for health care providers who practice at University of Iowa Health Care, as well as outside clients.
The office provides services assuring physician licensure, certification of physician education and training, history of malpractice claims, work history, and any practice sanctions issued by medical boards or government programs.
The University of Iowa Clinical Staff Office (UI CSO), established in 1996, addresses the credentialing needs of various managed care organizations, hospitals, and other health care entities.
The verification process begins with a practitioner completing an Iowa Statewide Universal Practitioner Application online. All information is held highly confidential, according to the UI CSO's strict security policies.
The information housed in the Credentialing Database allows the UI CSO to provide preprinted forms, applications, and reports. This capacity frees the practitioner from spending valuable time completing multiple forms/applications and decreases duplicative efforts. At recredentialing, the use of previously entered data means that the practitioner need only review, update, and attest to the information originally provided on the application.
The UI CSO verifies practitioner's credentials using criteria that is compliant with the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) and The Joint Commission (TJC).
The UI CSO routinely supports the credentialing and privileging processes that take place across University of Iowa Health Care and aims to reduce duplicative efforts and improve the verification process. Contracts with other clients may be establshed on a case-by-case basis.
The University of Iowa Clinical Staff Office (CSO) is a Credentialing Verification Organization (CVO) and is compliant with National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) standards for the following credentialing elements:
NCQA is dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans and credentials verification organizations.
The CSO underwent the on-site re-survey on March 18, 2024. The final report was received and the CSO is compliant with NCQA standards for verification services.
NCQA is an independent, non-profit organization that certifies credentials verification organizations and accredits managed care organizations. More information regarding NCQA can be obtained at www.ncqa.org.
Please contact Deb Strabala, at 1-319-384-9292 for any public/written reference to the CSO as a CVO and/or their NCQA status.
Hospital Privilege for the University of Iowa Health Care
Please use the link below to verify delineated hospital privileges.
Post Graduate Training completed at the UI Health Care. Please see request requirements at Graduate Medical Education.
Medical Education verification for the University of Iowa College of Medicine (or other University of Iowa degrees), can be requested online.
Employment/Work History available through The Work Number (the Clinical Staff Office is not the authority on employment data).
Medical Records Request available online.
Authorization for Release of Child Abuse Information
Sent to Department of Human Services at the address listed on the form.
Dependent Adult Abuse Registry Information
Sent to Department of Human Services at the address listed on the form.
Related Links
Applications must be made through a clinical department.
Call 1-800-882-9539. The DEA offers applications online. If the practitioner will only be practicing at a UI Health Care site, the fee should be exempt for the department and the practitioner. A department or division head may sign for this exemption.
No. UI Health Care practitioners do not need to supply UI Health Care hospital privilege letters or copies of UI Health Care malpractice certificates, the CSO can obtain these in-house.
In addition to the monthly downloads of the Office of Inspector General to verify the lack of Medicare/Medicaid Sanctions, the CSO also checks the Iowa and Illinois Medical Boards to verify the lack of licensure sanctions. Interim Monitoring of licensure/registration expirations is conducted according to individual contract specifications.
Yes, after completing the entire Iowa Statewide Universal Practitioner online application, signing and dating, the application may be submitted along with a photo (2-inch x 3-inch .jpg) and the Cover-Checklist indicating which attachments will follow. For example, an Iowa Medical License has not been issued yet. In the license section of the application, indicate this item is pending, on the Cover-Checklist indicate that the copy will follow, and send it as soon as it is received. By submitting the application and photo before a license is issued, the CSO can begin processing to avoid delay. Please be sure to submit pending or missing required attachments as soon as possible to avoid continued delay processing.
Yes, any and all hospital privileges should be listed on the application. The hospital privilege section of the application can be copied if additional space is needed, or additional pages can be found on the applications pages can be found on the application link on this website.
No, if the practitioner's information has previously been submitted to the CSO, call the UI Health Car department or the CSO directly at 1-319-384-9294. With the information in the database, the application can be preprinted and sent to the practitioner for renewal (review, updating, and signature).
Please indicate the current legal name at the time of the application completion and enter in the "Other Names" section the new married name and/or other maiden name(s) and the effective and end date for each name.
There is information available on the Iowa Board of Medicine online or you can call 1-515-281-6641 with further questions.
The CSO sends notifications to practitioners and their respective departments concerning renewal of licenses, federal and state DEA and CPR expirations, monitors renewals and obtains necessary primary source verifications retaining copies for the practitioner files located in the CSO. Services to outside entities can be customized to fit client needs.
National Provider Identifier - the NPI is part of the Administrative Simplification Provisions of HIPAA 1996. This number should eventually replace other practitioner numbers such as the UPIN, Medicare/Medicaid, and payor specific numbers. You can search for NPI numbers online.
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