Melissa Smith
Vice President of Contracts and Credentials at Therapy Source, Inc.- Claim this Profile
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Therapy Source, Inc.
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United States
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Staffing and Recruiting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Vice President of Contracts and Credentials
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Dec 2021 - Present
Providing Strategic leadership to the team, oversees the departmental operations, assuring the delivery of superior credentialing verification services, maintenance of our contractors with their State Licenses, Educator Certificates, National Certificates, and other important documents required by the State DOE and any contracted clients.
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Credentialing Director
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Jan 2014 - Dec 2021
As the Credentialing Director, I undertake all accountabilities of a Credentialing Manager while delegating tasks and establishing priorities for my team. I, with great pleasure takeownership and liability that myself and team are ensuring the compliance of our independent contractors, field staff and internal employees for the states in which we have partnered with to provide therapists to fulfill client needs. My core duties include running the credentialing department team in their… Show more As the Credentialing Director, I undertake all accountabilities of a Credentialing Manager while delegating tasks and establishing priorities for my team. I, with great pleasure takeownership and liability that myself and team are ensuring the compliance of our independent contractors, field staff and internal employees for the states in which we have partnered with to provide therapists to fulfill client needs. My core duties include running the credentialing department team in their everyday work, as well as researching our future growth with new and up to-date compliance requirements from the Department of Education to the school districts. I track our benchmarks with credential reports that shows credentials expiring in certain time parameters, overall tracking of contracts we issue and receive, exploring and preparing for future business and credential requirements. State Education Laws, Charter School Compliance, Virtual School Compliance, TheraWeb, Contracts , Audits, Run & Manage Compliance Reports, Tracking Reports, State Audit Request, School Audits, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Language Pathologist, Social Workers, Vision Therapist(s), Music Therapist(s), Play Therapist(s), Psychologist, TSS, ABA, BCBA
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Therapy Source, Inc.
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United States
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Staffing and Recruiting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Credentialing Manager
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Jan 2012 - Jan 2013
Responsible for leading, coordinating, monitoring, and maintaining the credentialing and re-credentialing process. Ensures interpretation and compliance with the appropriate accrediting and State Department of Education guidelines, while developing and maintaining a working knowledge of the statues and laws relating to credentialing. Responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the credentialing database system and related applications. Oversees the Credential Department.
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Credentialing Specialist
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Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
My role started off joining the company with no credentialing department or organization. I utilized my first year with the company to audit and develop my role and build a department that would be key for supporting our sales team as well as ensuring our company is in compliance both with the states we work in as well as the schools that we are providing services with our contractors. Our independent contractor rate grew 85% within a year, as well as the states we do business in doubled. When… Show more My role started off joining the company with no credentialing department or organization. I utilized my first year with the company to audit and develop my role and build a department that would be key for supporting our sales team as well as ensuring our company is in compliance both with the states we work in as well as the schools that we are providing services with our contractors. Our independent contractor rate grew 85% within a year, as well as the states we do business in doubled. When I came on board, we had 400 therapist(s) in 12 states. Today we have 1900 active contractors and are in 39 states and we are still growing. As the Credentialing Specialist, I handled the daily tasks of issuing contracts to both contractors and clients, updating and maintaining credentials of our contractors, verifying credentials, notifying contractors of missing documents or paperwork, creating a notification process to allow contractors to sufficient time to updates their credentials prior to them expiring as well as research states and specialties as we continued to grow.
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Staffing Plus
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Haverford, PA
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Compliance Rep, Human Resources
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Apr 2008 - Dec 2010
Handle credentials for independent contractors. Worked withe the sales teams to ensure that the therapists that they were assigning to their clients were in compliance. The team was responsible for making sure that our 2,000+ contractors meet state requirements. Handle credentials for independent contractors. Worked withe the sales teams to ensure that the therapists that they were assigning to their clients were in compliance. The team was responsible for making sure that our 2,000+ contractors meet state requirements.
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MedStaff
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United States
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Staffing and Recruiting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Quality Assurance
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Jun 2005 - Apr 2008
Promoted from Quality Processor to Quality Assurance. In this role my primary responsibilities were to make sure that all of our Nurses were in compliance with their contracts, licensures, certifications, drug screens, background checks and I-9's. I worked aside the sales team to satisfy all client and state expectations. My team played an important rule in obtaining Joint Commission Certification for the company.
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Quality Processor
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Jul 2004 - Jun 2005
Responsible for entering applications and skills checklist in the CRM system.
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Education
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Delaware County Community College
ASN, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies -
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
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