It is the first week a new provider is seeing patients in Oakland County, and the front desk keeps telling callers the practice is not in network with their plan yet. Nobody started the applications early, the CAQH profile is half finished, and the provider is seeing a fraction of the patients you hired them for.
With credentialing handled, every provider's CAQH profile is complete and current, applications go out to each payer with the right documents, and someone follows up until each contract is signed and the effective date is confirmed. Revalidations and re-credentialing dates get tracked long before they are due.
New providers start with full schedules instead of empty ones. Your front desk can tell customers yes, and you stop losing revenue to paperwork that slipped through the cracks.