NAMSS PASS^® is a free and secure online tool that lets healthcare organizations share and search a practitioner’s hospital affiliations in seconds. When your credentialing software connects to NAMSS PASS^®, you have access to the only nationwide resource of practitioner affiliation history for Medical Services Professionals (MSPs).

NAMSS PASS^® saves you time, placing the information you need to verify practitioner history from multiple sources in one location.

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Electronic Connectivity Program (ECP)

Is Your Software Vendor Connected?

NAMSS PASS^® does not compete with credentialing software vendors. Instead, it works alongside them as a tool to centralize hospital affiliation history. The more vendors that connect and contribute practitioner data through their credentialing software, the stronger and more valuable NAMSS PASS^® becomes for MSPs.

NAMSS is partnering with leading credentialing software vendors to seamlessly integrate hospital affiliation data — eliminating manual uploads and saving time.

Take Action: Encourage your vendor to integrate with NAMSS PASS^®. Together, we are protecting patients and upholding the highest standards for providers.

NAMSS PASS^® by the Numbers 

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A green access button will appear below AFTER you have successfully signed into your NAMSS account. If you do not see the button after logging in, please email info@namss.org.

For additional questions regarding NAMSS PASS^®, please email support@namsspass.com or call (800) 995-4233.

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Top 5 Things to Know About NAMSS PASS®

• NAMSS PASS^® will save you time! 
  • MSPs can immediately print good standing letters on contributing hospital letterhead, if a letter for that practitioner is available. 
• NAMSS PASS^® is not credentialing software. 
  • It is a centralized data repository of primary source practitioner affiliation information. The NAMSS PASS Electronic Connectivity Program (ECP) is designed to help health care entities (HCE) and vendors connect their credentialing-related software systems to the NAMSS PASS database. Learn more about the ECP.
• It is FREE to create a NAMSS PASS account and upload your data. 
  • NAMSS is committed to improving patient safety; it will always be free to create an account and upload your practitioners’ data.  
• NAMSS has established a national definition for good standing. 
  • Credentialing entities all want and need “good standing” letters, but the industry has never developed a common understanding of what that means – until NAMSS PASS^®.
• Participating in NAMSS PASS^® does NOT require agreements/releases from the practitioners you credential. 
  • NAMSS PASS^® collects and shares affiliation history and good standing letters for the purposes of verifying previous work history. Your practitioners have most likely already given their permission to share this information.

NAMSS PASS^® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a service mark of National Association Medical Staff Services.