URAC Core 5 -- v. 2.1 Proposed Revision

URAC's proposed revisions to Core 5 are subtle and significant.  The new version would read:

Staff meets qualifications as required in written job descriptions.
(Wt = M)

The most obviously significant change is in scoring -- what is now a standard weighted "3" (low on the URAC scoring scale), would become a mandatory standard.  This is something to which your Human Resources department should be alerted -- their oversights can now cost your organization a shot at accreditation.  This is new and worth noting.

In terms of content, the change proposed by URAC is the use of "required" instead of "outlined".  This takes a bit of the heat off of the HR folks.  Job descriptions are comprised not only of requirements for the job, but "preferred" characteristics, e.g., "graduate degree preferred" or "board certification preferred".  This proposed changed makes it clear that only those qualifications noted in the job description that are required by theh organization will be required to be met by this standard.  Most reviewers have read the old version of Core 5 this way all along, but this removes any lingering doubt.