The vendor is required to provide that medical consultant staffing services.
- the selected vendors must hire and maintain properly licensed staff, and ensure the medical consultant professionals performing services under this agreement possess:
• Valid state medical or psychological license.
• Professional references.
• Copy of curriculum vitae.
• Completed homeland security presidential directive 12 (HSPD 12) forms, which include federal
credit check, criminal background check and fingerprinting.
• Medical consultants hired meet all applicable federal and state laws, regulations, and/or accreditation standards to be presented to facility administration upon request.
- Medical consultant staff who have demonstrated skills and experience with, and are capable of duties that include, but are not limited to:
• Apply medical specialty knowledge in evaluation of disability cases for all age ranges.
• Review and analyzes medical evidence to determine impairment severity and remaining physical and mental functional capacity
• Prepares a detailed written medical analysis of the facts of the disability case including the total effect of the impairment(s), including those that are not severe.
• Recommends the need for medical tests, evaluations or consultative examinations in the fields of medicine, psychology, psychiatry or other specialties.
• Consults with internal and external professionals or contacts providers, including physicians and psychologists, to address highly complex issues or to resolve conflicts in evidence.
• Assisting examiners in medical training to ensure uniform understanding of instructions containing medical content, as well as assisting in complex case development.
- Vendors must hire chief medical consultant staff who have demonstrated skills and experience with, and are capable of duties that include, but are not limited to:
• demonstrated ability in the application of SSA disability program regulations and possess significant SSA disability program knowledge and experience.
• Assist in the selection of department staff medical or psychological consultants and consultative examination providers. supervise and assist in the training of staff medical or psychological consultants.
• Conduct qualitative reviews of consultative examination reports and request corrective action from the consultative examination provider as needed.
• Coordinate with the professional relations officer to conduct routine quality analysis of consultative examination reports in order to ensure exam report standards continue to be met. provide feedback to consultative providers as necessary.
• Recommends the need for medical tests, evaluations or consultative examinations in the fields of medicine, psychology or other specialties. act as ordering physician to obtain hospital testing as required.
• Review and analyze medical evidence to determine impairment severity and remaining physical or mental functional capacity for routine, highly complex, or specialized workloads, as defined by the SSA program operations manual.
• Mentoring and/or training examiners in medical or psychological content to ensure uniform understanding in the disability program standards.
- Vendors must ensure all staff attend a minimum of eight (8) hours of orientation that includes, but is not limited to:
• Client confidentiality.
• Medical listings, medical records and other documentation practices and computer training.
• Security awareness, personal identifiable information (PII) loss and fraud training.
• Vendors must make a reasonable effort to accommodate staffing requests for specific individual medical consultants and chief medical consultants.
• Vendors must pay all staff wages, which includes payments of federal and state taxes.
• Vendors’ staffing services for each medical professional provided must be a minimum of a twenty-six (26) week period (staffing period), without a gap in delivered services for the staffing period unless otherwise mutually agreed upon in writing.
• Provide replacement or additional staffing for the contract period, once department interviews staff person and SSA allows for an “offer to hire” after HSPD 12 eligibility.
• Provide alternative staffing, verbally and in writing, to department may, at its discretion, choose to accept the vendor’s alternative staffing, in the event the vendor is unable to fulfill replacement staffing.
• Vendors must notify staff that they will be supervision by a department -employed administrator.
• The ability and a procedure to immediately receive notification from the department of any unexpected incident known to involve staff including, but not limited to errors, safety hazards, or injury.
- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: February 25, 2025