Talent Support

Background Check & Credentialing

compliance

Role-based background checks via Checkr/Sterling/HireRight, state licensure verification, OIG/SAM exclusion checks, NPDB queries, and audit-ready credentialing reports.

Talent AcquisitionLegal & Compliance
83%
Reduction in coordinator touch time per candidate
~90%
Reduction in documentation gaps and missed verification steps
4-5x
Increase in pipeline capacity per FTE
Use Case 1

Clinical Hire Credentialing: RN Candidate Batch Processing

Trigger: Five registered nurse candidates have accepted conditional offers and need full credentialing completed before their start dates in 14 days.

1.Coordinator submits five candidate IDs and role type ('RN'); agent reads the corresponding rows from the credentialing tracker.
2.Agent initiates criminal checks, OIG/SAM exclusion checks (against full legal name and all aliases), and employment verification through Checkr.
3.For each candidate, the agent queries the appropriate state nursing board API to verify active RN licensure, cross-referencing license number, expiration date, and any disciplinary actions.
4.Agent polls vendor APIs for status updates and surfaces a consolidated progress dashboard in Slack.
5.When all checks return, four candidates are fully clear and reports are auto-generated as PDFs. One candidate has a licensing board disciplinary note — classified as Level 2, triggering a RequestApproval gate.
6.Once the Compliance Officer approves or declines, the agent updates the tracking sheet and drafts the appropriate next-step communication.

All five candidates fully processed in a single workflow run. Four receive audit-ready credentialing reports within hours. One flagged candidate is held at a documented compliance gate with a full audit trail.

Use Case 2

Physician Credentialing with NPDB Discrepancy Escalation

Trigger: A newly recruited hospitalist physician's background check results have returned and the Compliance Officer wants to verify NPDB and state medical board data are consistent.

1.Compliance Officer asks the agent to run full credentialing verification for physician candidate ID 7741.
2.Agent queries the NPI Registry to confirm NPI, specialty, and practice state, then cross-references against the state medical board API.
3.Agent submits a malpractice history query to the NPDB and detects a discrepancy: the NPDB shows a resolved settlement not appearing in the state board record.
4.Any NPDB-to-state-board discrepancy automatically triggers a Level 2 compliance review. Agent logs the discrepancy and fires a RequestApproval gate.
5.Agent drafts a structured summary of the discrepancy attached to the approval request so the Compliance Officer has full context.

The Compliance Officer receives a clear, documented escalation with all source data surfaced. The discrepancy is formally logged and the workflow is fully defensible for accreditation review.

Integrations

Security Review Skill (PII masking audit)
Checkr / Sterling / HireRight Webhook MCP
Athena FHIR / REST API MCP Server

Industries

healthcaretechnologyfinancial-servicesretailmanufacturingprofessional-servicespublic-sectorhospitalityother

See It In Action

A sample conversation with this agent

What types of background checks does this agent run, and how do I kick one off?
The agent explains the role-based check matrix (criminal, OIG/SAM exclusion, employment verification for all roles; plus license verification, NPDB query, and malpractice history for clinical roles), then walks the user through submitting a candidate intake — either via the Google Sheet intake tab or by providing fields directly in chat.
Run the full credentialing workflow for the five candidates in the 'Pending Initiation' tab of the credentialing tracker sheet.
The agent reads the Google Sheet, validates each candidate record, initiates the appropriate check package with Checkr/Sterling/HireRight, queries state licensing boards and the NPI Registry for clinical roles, logs check initiation timestamps and vendor confirmation IDs back to the sheet, and posts a Slack summary to the compliance channel — flagging any records with missing required fields.
Checkr came back with a 'Dispute Initiated' status on candidate ID 4821. What happens now?
The agent confirms it will not classify candidate 4821 as Clear. It updates the status in the tracking sheet to 'Pending Resolution', drafts a Slack message to the compliance officer for human review, and explains that no downstream actions will proceed until the dispute is resolved. The dispute flag is logged with a timestamp in the audit trail.
Generate a final credentialing report for candidate ID 3307 — she's a travel RN and everything came back clean. We need it ready for the medical staff office by EOD.
The agent compiles all verification results (criminal check, OIG/SAM exclusion, RN license verification, employment history) using masked identifiers, formats a structured audit-ready credentialing report as a PDF, saves it to the Google Drive credentialing folder, and drafts a Gmail message to the medical staff office — holding the email for human review.