HearUSA has received Health Network Re-Accreditation from URAC, a Washington, DC-based health care accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the health care industry.

HearUSA received the full 3-year accreditation, which evaluates standards for the methodology of ensuring appropriate patient protections, such as policies for confidentiality of patient information, informed consent, dispute resolution, and network management.

The URAC standards also cover staff structure and qualifications, quality improvement, information management, and oversight of delegated functions such as credentialing and ethics.

SOURCE: HearUSA