Credentialing Process

Our credentialing process ensures we have the most qualified health care professionals.

Top Docs is proud of our ongoing track record to find, recruit and retain the best and the most qualified physicians.  We know that the health care professionals we endorse meet our rigorous standards of professionalism and skill sets.

Top Docs painstakingly reviews all documentation and confirms all essential credentials before we accept you as a health care professional.  Top Docs professional evaluators determine each physician's ability to meet strict guidelines to ensure a standard of professional excellence.

Once your initial credentialing process has been approved, your Top Docs Account Executive will help you complete the Hospital Privileging applications.

Because of our extensive resources, we frequently can reduce the time required to complete the credentialing process.  Many times candidates pass the credentialing process in 2-4 weeks (This is considerably less time than the traditional 2-3 months process used by others).

Qualifications

Top Docs places Medical Doctors and Doctors of Osteopathy. All physicians working under this contract will have completed an ACGME approved residency training program in the specialty for which they will be assigned, in addition to being Board Certified or Board Eligible. (Board Eligibility: the physician has completed a residency or fellowship within the past four (4) years.)

Top Docs Locum Tenens services physicians undergo a very thorough credentialing process.

All physicians that provide Locum Tenens services through Top Docs are considered "Independent Contractors".  All Independent Contractors assigned to provide Locum Tenens services at government facilities shall:

• Speak, understand, read and write the English language
• Hold a current BLS and/or ACLS certification
• Meet all qualifications and guidelines as outlined in the individual Statements of Work
• Be able to provide proof of US citizenship or eligibility to work in the US
• Meet all immunization requirements required for specific locations including but not limited to MMR, Chicken Pox and PPD tests

Prior to commencement of work at any government location and most facilities, each Independent Contractor shall complete the credentialing process at both the client facility and Top Docs. In order to pass the credentialing process in the 2-4 week time frame, all required documentation must be completed in a 48 hour time frame. The Physician is also required to obtain a physical examination, which will indicate that they are free from any mental and physical impairments that would restrict them from performing the services that are required if so required by the facility or statement of work.  A physician shall sign the above requirements.

Prior to being presented for a government position, physicians must submit at a minimum:

Current Curriculum Vitae (CV) with an explanation of any gaps in the CV from Medical School to present

Current, unrestricted license to practice medicine in a state, territory, commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia

Valid DEA certificate

Four (4) professional references from peers who have witnessed the physician's clinical skills within the previous 12 months.

Additional credentialing requirements will be necessary once the government facility has accepted the physician for the assignment.  Most government assignments will require a minimum of a ninety (90) day commitment.

Download Top Docs credentialing application from our Forms page or click on the link below.

Complete and fax to Top Docs @ (386)-668-9157 or toll free @ 866-867-3628.

Include all of the required documents specified in the check off list from our Forms page.