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Okey Silman II (00:00) hello? Hello? Yes, I can.
Alex Lawrence (00:02) Hi, oki. Hi, can you hear me? Hey, oki. This is Alex calling from medallion. We had connected last month. I’m not sure if you remember. Does medallion ring a bell at all?
Okey Silman II (00:16) Maybe not. I’m in Florida right now.
Alex Lawrence (00:22) So, oh, you’re in Florida? Is there a good time that I could reconnect? I know I’d sent over just a couple proposed calendar invites and not sure if I have the right thing, but with the merger with independence and wvu med currently?
Okey Silman II (00:32) Right. Oh.
Okey Silman II (00:40) Okay. Yeah, with, ihs yeah, yeah.
Alex Lawrence (00:43) Yeah. And with you guys currently looking to hire four credentialing specialists, I wanted to touch base and kind of share some ways we’re helping health systems kind of automate a lot of the credentialing process to smooth out mergers.
Okey Silman II (00:58) Gotcha. We wbu, we actually have a pretty good process in place for our acquisition of mergers and we bring them on board rather quickly without incident wow.
Alex Lawrence (01:11) And what would be considered quick in your opinion?
Okey Silman II (01:16) Well, whenever, as soon as all the, you know, the con’s paperwork is signed, we usually bring them right on and we usually do it without incidents.
Alex Lawrence (01:28) Okay. And that’s great to hear. I was gonna say across the board. We usually hear that it’s like a 90 to 120 days to bring physicians to par status and we’re usually cutting down about 45 days off of that. So just wanted to kind of connect in.
Okey Silman II (01:42) I would say as soon as we make, as soon as we pull the trigger and we say we’re done, we’re pumping stuff out the door in less than five days and we’re usually meeting target within 15 to 20.
Alex Lawrence (01:53) Okay.
Alex Lawrence (02:00) Yeah. And we’re realistically getting like a credentialing packet, ready to go usually same day through the automation.
Okey Silman II (02:07) Yeah. And we have a full credentialing party that takes care of all of our –. We’ve got delegated credentialing… within our health system.
Alex Lawrence (02:20) Which is definitely expected. The main reason I was reaching out is there’s currently?
Okey Silman II (02:23) Yeah, we’re one of the very few one of the very few in the state that has delegated credentialing. Yeah.
Alex Lawrence (02:36) Four openings for credentialing people which I assume is to help handle the increased volume. So just really wanted to see if there was an opportunity to have like a 15 minute conversation and share some of the ways that we’re able to help without adding headcount.
Okey Silman II (02:41) We’re there for as far as like four and a half years.
Okey Silman II (02:49) If we are truly talking, just credentialing, I can put you in contact with our director of our credentialing department, which is Heather cumpston. And she would take care of all that.
Alex Lawrence (03:08) Awesome. If I shot you an email today, do you think you could like put us in contact or would it be better if I?
Okey Silman II (03:15) You shoot me an email today? Yeah, you –. Yeah, you shoot me one today and I know it’s coming in today and I will follow up and CC Heather on that reply.
Alex Lawrence (03:27) Okay. I appreciate your time. I hope you enjoy Florida. Is it? Okie fillman at wvumedicine org?
Okey Silman II (03:35) Yes, sir.
Alex Lawrence (03:37) Awesome. It’ll come from Alex Lawrence at medallion. So, if you, just in case it ends up in the spam, but I’ll send that in the next like 15 minutes.
Okey Silman II (03:41) All right, sir. All right, sir. Pleasure talking to you. Yes, you do the same. All right. Bye bye.
Alex Lawrence (03:48) Awesome. Appreciate your time. Have a wonderful weekend. Take care bye.