URAC
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URAC, formerly known as the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission, is a nonprofit organization promoting healthcare quality by accrediting healthcare organizations. The organization offers quality benchmarking programs and services that keep pace with the health care system evolution, and provides accreditation to assure quality and accountability of the organization.
Independent review organizations and other companies involved in health care utilization review are often certified by URAC for a period of five years at which time they must recertify.
Because of its status as an accrediting organization, many state and some federal government agencies look to URAC and similar standards organizations as the basis for consumer protection and may even refer to these standards.
