Why were the standards in Core renumbered and will URAC provide a crosswalk for this renumbering from version 2.1 to 3.0?
Response: For the URAC Core Organizational Quality Standards version 3.0 (Core), the standards were reorganized to ease the application process. Standards listed first apply to all health care organizations. These standards are followed by those where the applicant organization must have licensed or certified clinical staff in order to conduct the function covered by the accreditation. The last sections of Core apply to those organizations that interact directly with health care consumers on an ongoing basis in order to provide health care management support services directly to the consumer.
