Background Checks

A partnership with Occuscreen is a guarantee to FCRA, fully compliant, background investigations. The knowledgeable staff at Occuscreen will supply all forms and training required to properly and legally screen applicants. Every service will be customized for each individual client, creating solutions which will meet all expectations for turnaround times, accuracy, and FCRA compliancy.

Social Security Number Trace
Occuscreen's SSN Trace checks validity of an applicant's Social Security Number. If the applicant's number is valid, the trace will identify the state and year in which the number was issued, along with the jurisdictions in which the applicant has lived during the past 7 to 10 years. The SSN Trace will return other legal names and AKAs used by the applicant as well.

Criminal County Record Search
This search provides information on felony convictions, misdemeanor convictions, and pending cases, usually including the date and nature of the offense, sentencing date, disposition, and current status. Occuscreen provides onsite county criminal searches at the 3000+ county courthouses across the country.  We recommend a search of every county of residence and any AKAs that have been identified in the applicant's Social Security Number Trace (or application). Using our network of researchers provides access to the most up-to-date data available.

Criminal Federal Court Search
Occuscreen searches Federal District Courts for convictions of crimes which occurred on federal property and convictions of federal crimes such as tax evasion, drug trafficking, mail and wire fraud, and immigration law violations. Records provide a criminal history of the subject, which includes the date of disposition, parole, or release from imprisonment.

National Criminal Database Search
This search provides same-day access to the largest criminal database available, currently 180 million records. It can be a valuable supplementary resource which may discover convictions in counties not identified in the Social Security Trace. These records are indexed from state correctional facilities, sex offender lists, and some state and county records.

Sex Offender Search
Occuscreen's sex offender search includes access to records in all 50 states.

Motor Vehicle Reports (MVR)
MVR's provide driving history, verification of driving privilege, other names used for identification verification (AKAs), and physical description.  This report will also include information about suspended licenses, failures to appear in court, and arrest warrants.  In addition, drug and alcohol related driving offenses may serve as a warning of potential substance abuse problems.

Employment Credit Report
Occuscreen recommends an employment credit report for employees with financial responsibilities. This report provides a credit history and public records such as judgments, liens, and bankruptcies. The credit report may include previous employers, addresses, and other names used by the subject.

Employment Verification
Occuscreen recommends employment verifications for all applicants. It is estimated that 40% of all applications and resumes contain falsified information. Basic employment verification includes dates of employment, job title, salary history, and eligibility for rehire, along with an additional questions requested.

Education Verification
Occuscreen will confirm degrees, diplomas or certificates, and dates attended. Typically the "highest degree" earned is verified.  This verification includes dates of attendance, graduation date, and degree earned.

Professional License Verification
Verifies the type of license, whether currently valid, dates issued, state, and licensing authority.

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

Is the successor organization to the Office of Foreign Funds Control (OFFC), which was established at the advent of World War II, following the German invasion on Norway in 1940.  The OFAC adminsters and enforces economic sanction programs, primarily against countries and groups of individuals, such as terroists and narcotic traffikers.  The sanctions can be either comprehensive or selective, using the blocking of assets and trade restrictions to accomplish foreign policy and national security goals.

Fraud and Abuse Control Information System (FACIS)

Allows organizations to make different risk decisions depending on the individual or the entity.  FACIS offers three levels of screening, which vary in the depth of the saction search provided.

Level 1

Conducts a search of the sanction information, as taken by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), General Services Administration (GSA) and other federal agencies.  This information meets the governments minimum requirements for sanction screening, as set forth in the OIG's Compliance Program Guidance.

Level 2

Combines the Level 1 search of the federal agencies, along with disciplinary action information from multiple agencies and one state of choice.

Level 3

The most robust search option, which conducts a search of disciplinary actions taken by federal agencies, as well as those taken by licensing and certification agencies in all 50 states.  This is the most comprehensive search method available.

Financial Services Package

Banks, credit unions, mortgage brokers, or any other financial service companies should protect businesses and employees with the following searches:

Homeland Security

Provides 34 different National and International Terrorist and Fugitive Lists.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Office of Thrift Supervision

Provides breaches or violations of unsound or unsafe practices; breaches of fiduciary duty.

Comptroller of the Currency Administrator of National Banks (OCC)

Serves national banks, FDIC-insured state chartered banks (which are not members of the Federal Reserve System), FDIC-insured branches of foreign banks, along with officers, directors, employees, and shareholders associated with such institutions.

Federal Reserve Board

Finds enforcement actions against an entity supervised by the Federal Reserve.

National Credit Union Association

Locates any findings or breaches against credit unions.

I-9 Compliance Services

• Confirm the legal "right to work" status of newly hired employees and recieve a verification number from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

• Electronically store and retrieve active and inactive I-9 forms, providing anytime, anywhere, secure paperless access for updates, re-verification and governmental inspections as dictated by law.

• Recieve automated alerts 90, 60, and 30 days in advance of expiration of employees' work, along with authorization documents enabling employees to apply for renewal of their work authorizations.  This greatly increases the probability they can legally continue to work without interruption.

• Easily identify current employees with fradulent Social Security Numbers through the Social Security Administration (SSA) Employee Verificaiton Service (EVS).

Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB)

Practitioners involved in health care fraud and abuse can cost your organization millions of dollars, in addition to injuring patients.  This makes querying the HIPDB essential.  The HIPDB is a flagging system that identifies health care practitioners, providers, and suppliers involved in health care fraud and abuse.  Report information contained in the HIPDB alerts your organization to practitioners who should be more closely investigated; including those which could potentially cause major problems to your organization.

National Practitioners Data Bank (NPDB)

The National Practitioner Data Bank is primarily an alert or flagging system intended to facilitate a comprehensive review of health care practitioners' professional credentials.  The information contained in the NPDB is intended to direct discrete inquiry into, and scruitny of, specific areas of a practitioner's licensure, professional society memberships, medical malpractice payment history, and record of clincial privileges.  The information contained in the NPDB should be considered together with other relevant data in evaluating a practitioner's credentials; it is intended to augment, not replace, traditional forms of credentials review.

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