URAC Core 1 -- v. 2.1 Proposed Revision

URAC is proposing no substantive revision to Core 1, which reads (and will continue to read):

The organization has a clearly defined organizational structure outlining direct and indirect oversight responsibility throughout the organization.

The only proposed change is to the weight assigned the standard in URAC's scoring system, to change it from its current weight of 3 to the new weight of 2.

As a single-element standard, this is exactly the sort of standard which will experience the most significant downgrade in importance relative to other standards within the Core module, well beyond the downgrade from "3" to "2".  One can see the change in impact by comparing the proposed new value of Core 1 to the proposed new value of Core 2, discussed in greater detail in another blog.  Because Core 2 has four elements in the proposed v. 2.1, with each element being assigned a weight of "2", the total number of "weight units" for that standard is now 8, compared to Core 1's weight of 2.  In other words.  In v. 2.0, Core 1 was equal in value to Core 2; in v. 2.1, as proposed, Core 1 will be worth one-quarter the value of Core 2.

This is no comment on whether this change is a good or a bad thing -- just that people evaluating the proposed standards should understand that the change in the weights of these standards is the least significant change in scoring system -- a far more significant change is found in the assignment of independent scores to the individual elements of the standards.