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Solutions/AI provider credentialing automation

Provider credentialing software you own outright.

The payer’s review takes 30 to 60 days and you cannot compress it. Everything else is file work, and file work is a machine’s job. Your specialist signs, your committee decides.

30 minutes. The price on this page is the price on the call.

Credentialing Desk illustrative
initial · commercial payers ×5 awaiting sign-off
Provider file · A. Rivera, MD · family medicine
license verified DEA verified NPDB clear completeness 100%
S. Okafor, NP · applications populatedready
J. Chen, DO · verifying 3 of 5 registriesverifying…
M. Patel, MD · 2 documents missingwaiting on docs
A. Rivera, MD · primary-source verification 5 checks run
State license board · LIC 482913match
DEA registration · BR 5521840match
NPDB query · response 03-12clear
OIG / SAM exclusion listsclear
Board certification · ABFMrecheck queued

Evidence snapshot saved per check · timestamped · illustrative

Expirables on the roster fires at 90 / 60 / 30
RN license · S. Okafor28 days
DEA registration · A. Rivera61 days
Malpractice COI · group policy84 days
Board certification · J. Chen112 days

Re-credentialing starts before the lapse, not after the audit finding · illustrative

File signed · routed to committee packet
Specialist gate: enforced in code No auto-submit · ever
90–120
days of commercial-payer credentialing per provider file
Assured credentialing timeline guide, 2026
$2.38M
net revenue the average physician generates for an affiliated hospital each year
Merritt Hawkins revenue survey, 2019
$45,634
median annual cost to rent Medallion, the category platform
Vendr marketplace data, 2026

Put those together: a provider you already pay waits three to four months in a queue, at roughly $6,500 a day of idle revenue capacity, while the tools to shorten the wait rent for more per year than this build costs once.

The problem

The credentialing queue is a revenue decision

Each application consumes 20+ hours of staff time, and manual primary-source verification eats 4 to 8 weeks of the enrollment window. Here is the shape of the 90-to-120-day cycle, and the only part of it you can actually buy back:

A 120-day provider credentialing cycle with roughly 60 days of compressible file work followed by 30 to 60 days of payer review
Commercial-payer timelines per Assured (2026); day-rate derived from Merritt Hawkins’ $2.38M average annual physician revenue (2019).
Staff 20+ hrs per file

Throw staff at it

Works until volume grows. The specialist who knows every payer’s quirks spends her day copying dates from PDFs into portals.

Rent $45,634 / yr median

Rent a platform

Medallion’s median buyer pays $45,634 a year; Verifiable’s median runs $223,333 (Vendr, 2026). Capable systems, priced for health systems, rented forever.

Outsource $200–275 per plan

Outsource to a CVO

Commonly $200 to $275 per plan, per provider. The fees recur with every provider and renewal, and the file work never becomes your asset.

Own a scoped credentialing agent

It assembles and verifies every file and submits none of them. Fixed scope, fixed price, eval suite included.

the fourth option →
How it works

A credentialing pipeline, fixed scope, delivered in six weeks

01

Intake

Document processing reads licenses, DEA registrations, malpractice certificates, board certifications, CVs, and CAQH exports into one structured provider file, and lists exactly what is missing.

02

Verify

The agent checks each credential against the primary source. Every check saves a timestamped evidence snapshot, so the file is audit-ready by construction.

03

Populate

It fills your top five payer application formats from the verified file. The same data, entered once, never re-keyed.

04

The gatehuman judgment

A credentialing specialist reviews and signs every file before anything is submitted. Enforced in code, not in a policy document. The system cannot submit, and the committee decision stays with the committee.

primary sources in scope state license boardDEA registrationNPDBOIG / SAM exclusionsboard certification evidence snapshot per check

Scope is deliberately narrow: one provider roster, five primary-source registries, your top five payer application formats. That is what makes the price fixed and the timeline honest. The build also ships an expiry watchlist, so every expirable credential sits on a 90/60/30-day countdown with escalation. More payers, delegated rosters, or extra registries are follow-ons, priced the same way, in the open.

The differentiator

The eval suite is the product

Credentialing is a compliance function. An agent that “usually” gets it right is an audit finding waiting to happen. My acceptance criteria are written into the contract as eval scores, and you keep the machinery that produces them.

acceptance criteria · written into the contract ships with the build
EV-01

Golden provider files

Built from your historical credentialing files and their known outcomes, not synthetic examples.

your data
EV-02

Document-completeness tests

Every required element for each payer’s checklist, verified per file. A file missing an element cannot reach the gate marked ready.

blocks the gate
EV-03

Verification-match regression

Every extracted field is compared against the primary-source record it claims to match. A mismatch fails the suite.

fails on mismatch
EV-04

Expiry-clock tests

The harness advances a synthetic clock and proves the watchlist fires at 90, 60, and 30 days before every expirable credential lapses.

fires 90/60/30
EV-05

Parallel-run gate

The agent processes files alongside your current process until it clears the thresholds on live applications. No cutover before the score clears.

blocks cutover

When I hand over, you own the eval harness, the golden files, the regression suite, and a runbook. You do not have to trust my accuracy claim; you can re-run the suite this quarter, next quarter, and after every model update. This is the whole thesis of my practice: the machine does the work, and the human judges it. In credentialing, the judgment gate is not a nice-to-have. It is the design.

The price

The price is $25,000. Here is exactly what it buys.

One price. No tiers, no “starting at,” no quote theater.

One public price
$25,000
one-time · 6 weeks + 30-day stabilization
Schedule a call
rent · Medallion median $45,634 per year, every year (Vendr, 2026) own · $25,000 once, then it’s yours
  • Discovery workshop: your payer mix, provider types, and where the sign-off gate sits
  • Credentialing-document intake pipeline (IDP): licenses, DEA, certificates, CVs, CAQH exports
  • Primary-source verification agent across the five registries, with evidence snapshots
  • Payer application population for your top five payer formats
  • Specialist review-and-sign workflow (the enforced gate)
  • Expiry watchlist with 90/60/30-day countdowns and escalation
  • Golden dataset built from your historical provider files
  • Eval harness: completeness, verification-match, expiry-clock regression
  • Guardrails in code: no auto-submission, PII-handling constraints, confidence-floor escalation
  • Parallel-run period against your current process, with published thresholds
  • Handover pack: runbook, eval documentation, your team trained to run the suite
What’s not in the number, said plainly: you pay your own LLM API and hosting costs, typically $150 to $500 a month at MSO volume, on your accounts, visible to you, plus any registry access fees you already pay today. Optional monitoring retainer after stabilization: $1,500 a month, cancel anytime. Neither is required to run what you own.
The field

Against the alternatives

This build Platform subscription CVO service In-house manual
Price $25,000, once, public $45,634/yr median, undisclosed until the quote $200–$275 per plan, per provider, forever 20+ staff hours per application
Timeline 6 weeks + 30-day stabilization Months of procurement first Fast to start, never yours The status quo: 90 to 120 days
Who owns it You: code, evals, golden files The vendor The vendor You, minus the tooling
Proof it works Eval suite you can re-run Their accuracy claim Their track record Tribal knowledge
Who signs Your specialist, gate in code Varies by configuration Outside your walls Your specialist, buried in re-keying

A ten-provider MSO paying per-plan service fees across a dozen payers spends the build cost in a year or two and owns nothing at the end. I won’t promise your enrollment dates; payer review is the payer’s clock. I will show you the eval score before you cut over.

Delivery

How the six weeks run

  1. Week 1

    Discovery

    Map the credentialing workflow, pull historical provider files, fix the payer formats and registries in scope, and set the acceptance thresholds in writing.

  2. Weeks 2–3

    Golden files + intake

    Label historical files and outcomes; stand up document intake and the structured provider record.

  3. Week 4

    Verification agent

    Primary-source checks across the five registries, evidence-snapshot capture, confidence-floor escalation.

  4. Week 5

    Population + the gate

    Payer-format population, the specialist sign-off workflow, the expiry watchlist, guardrails in code.

  5. Week 6

    Parallel run

    The agent processes files alongside your current process. We compare against the golden set and live specialist judgments. Cutover only when thresholds clear.

  6. Days 1–30 after

    Stabilization

    I watch the evals, fix drift, tune escalation. Then you own it outright.

FAQ

Straight answers

The questions every MSO operator, credentialing firm principal, and medical staff office asks before booking the call.

Does the agent submit applications automatically?

No, and it can't be configured to. Every file requires specialist sign-off before submission, and the constraint lives in code. Credentialing is a compliance function; the machine assembles and verifies, your people decide.

What exactly does the $25,000 include?

Discovery, document intake, the primary-source verification agent, payer application population, the sign-off gate, the expiry watchlist, golden files, eval harness, parallel run, handover, and 30 days of stabilization. The only costs outside the number are your own API and hosting spend and the optional monitoring retainer.

Which registries and payers are in scope?

Five primary-source registries: state license board, DEA, NPDB, OIG and SAM exclusions, and board certification, plus your top five payer application formats. On the call we check whether your mix fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you before any money moves.

How do you prove it works on our provider files?

The golden dataset is built from your historical files and outcomes, and the contract's acceptance criteria are eval thresholds on that set: completeness, verification match, and expiry-clock behavior. Then a parallel run tests it on live applications before anything cuts over.

Is this compliant with HIPAA and NCQA-style credentialing standards?

The architecture is BAA-ready, with PII guardrails in code and the option to run on infrastructure you control. Every verification stores a timestamped evidence snapshot, which is what auditors ask for. The credentialing decision itself stays with your specialist and committee, which is what the standards require.

What happens after handover?

You own the code, the golden files, and the regression suite, plus a runbook your team is trained on. Registries change formats and models drift, so re-run the suite on a schedule: yourselves, or through the $1,500 a month monitoring retainer, which you can cancel anytime.

Why is the price public when every platform quotes custom?

Because scoped work can be priced, and unscoped work shouldn't be sold. The scope on this page is genuinely fixed, so the price can be too. If discovery reveals your situation needs more, you'll get a new scope with a number on it before any work starts.

Next step

The queue is the cost. Shrink it.

The payer’s clock is theirs. The file work is yours, and it is the part that keeps providers idle for weeks past what the review requires. Assemble it with a machine, verify it at the source, and keep the signature human.

30 minutes · the price stays $25,000 · if it’s not a fit, I’ll say so

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