Why will the Joint Commission be instituting a subscription billing model in 2006?
Periodically throughout the past decade, accredited organizations have requested that the Joint Commission change its pricing structure to comport with billing approaches used by other accrediting bodies, which spread survey fees over the entire accreditation cycle. Unfortunately, the accreditation process that the Joint Commission had in place during this period did not support such a change. However, beginning in 2006 – after which regular accreditation surveys will be conducted on an unannounced basis – the use of an annual subscription billing approach for the payment of accreditation fees will become fully consistent with the substantially continuous nature of the new accreditation process.
