Regulatory Requirements | 07.02.25
Leading the Change: An Update From NAMSS Government Relations
By Molly Ford, MPP
The NAMSS Government Relations team (GR team), which consists of staff and volunteer liaisons, has played an integral role in helping NAMSS achieve objectives within its 2025–2027 Strategic Plan. NAMSS’ GR team is specifically focused on the Strategic Plan’s “Lead the Change” objective that calls for building and strengthening industry partnerships and developing improved technologies and benchmarks to transform the MSP and Provider Enrollment professions.
In year one of NAMSS’ three-year strategic plan, NAMSS strategic partnership liaisons have developed a system for determining, prioritizing, managing, and maintaining partnerships that can help NAMSS lead and transform. This process includes building and maintaining a directory of NAMSS partners, as well as pursuing new partnerships that align with NAMSS’ current strategic objectives. Given how the MSP and Provider Enrollment professions continue to evolve, NAMSS’ pursuit of new partnerships reflects the transformation that the MSP profession has already undergone over the past few years — and continues to undergo.
NAMSS quality liaisons continue to work with accrediting organizations, regulators, and practitioner groups to increase alignment and practitioner engagement for quality-measurement processes. This includes working with our partners to develop best-practice standards for processes that include perspectives from all parties involved in quality measurement.
Over the past few years, the NAMSS Roundtable Series has focused on topics to help improve processes by identifying solutions to known challenges. This year’s roundtable will facilitate a discussion on peer review processes that can help inform best-practice standards that MSPs and Provider Enrollment professionals can help drive at their organizations.
NAMSS transformational liaisons are working to enhance NAMSS PASS by integrating with credentialing software vendors and concepts, launching a NAMSS PASS task force, and developing a marketing campaign that highlights the enduring role of NAMSS PASS, even among evolving credentialing technologies.
NAMSS wishes to thank its strategic partnership, practitioner quality, and professional transformation liaisons, Michelle Stultz, RN, CPMSM, CPCS, FMSP; Delicia Dimberg, Med-OM, BHA, CPCS; Diane Meldi, MBA, CPCS, CPMSM, FMSP; and Kate Conklin, MS, CHC, CPHQ, CPMSM, CPCS, for their help in achieving NAMSS’ strategic objectives.
Have a question for NAMSS’ government relations team? Contact Molly Ford: mford@namss.org.