It began with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations issuing formal warnings about people posing as surveyors to gain access to health care facilities. However, they may have been only a small piece of the problem. ED Management has learned of more than a dozen such incidents — several involving EDs — in which individuals claiming to be Joint Commission surveyors, physicians, or members of government agencies presented themselves at hospitals and began asking probing questions about areas such as staffing and bed capacity.