There’s no denying the fact that credentialing and enrolling a new provider can be a time-consuming process. The good news, though, is that automation technology is something that has the potential to make this process much more efficient for you and your staff. In this article, we’ll explore how to leverage automation in order to streamline your provider credentialing and enrollment responsibilities.
Automated Form Completion to Speed Up Provider Enrollment
One of the elements of the provider enrollment process that makes it so time-consuming is the fact that each provider requires you to submit a number of unique forms. Filling out each of these individual forms by hand is something that can take many hours of labor – and since each provider’s requirements are unique, it isn’t possible to simply complete a single form and send it out to multiple providers.
With that said, though, there are several different tools that enable you to automate much of the form completion process associated with enrolling a new provider. CAQH, for example, is one such tool – and the best part is that it is completely free to use.
CAQH is a database that enables you to upload information on both your organization and its providers. Once this information is in the database, CAQH can then be used to automatically extract necessary information and auto-fill various forms using the extracted data.
By auto-filling large portions of your provider credentialing and enrollment forms, CAQH enables you to complete a large chunk of the credentialing and enrollment process with just a few clicks of the mouse.
CAQH isn’t the only such tool that makes use of automation in order to streamline the provider credentialing and enrollment process, but it is one of the best. Combine this with the fact that CAQH is made available to all healthcare organizations and providers free of charge and there really is no reason not to start leveraging its benefits.
Automated Data Verification to Speed Up Provider Credentialing
Verifying that the information a new provider has given your organization is accurate and up-to-date is one of the more time-consuming tasks in the provider credentialing process. Once again, though, this is a task that can be made much more efficient with the use of automation technology. There are a number of tools – including CAQH – that enable you to automatically check a provider’s information against existing, cloud-based data points. This process takes only a matter of minutes to complete and is much more efficient than the hours of work involved with verifying a provider’s information manually one data point at a time. It is worth noting, however, that not all information can be verified in this manner. Information such as diplomas and continuing education credits don’t always exist on the cloud and often have to be manually retrieved and verified. Nevertheless, automated data verification can undoubtedly help you speed up the majority of your provider credentialing process.
How Bikham Healthcare Leverages Automation for Our Provider Credentialing and Enrollment Services
At Bikham Healthcare, we make use of a number of different automation technologies in order to provide credentialing and enrollment services that are as accurate and timely as possible. Our access to cutting-edge tools and technologies combined with our decades of combined experience in provider credentialing and enrollment enables us to complete these all-important processes in much less time than it takes for most healthcare organizations to complete these processes in-house. By speeding up your credentialing and enrollment process, we are able to save your organization both time and money, enabling you to successfully credential and enroll new providers in record time while also enabling you to dramatically reduce the number of billable hours your organization incurs. If you would like to learn more about how Bikham Healthcare can take the various responsibilities associated with provider credentialing and enrollment off of your shoulders via our industry-leading credentialing and enrollment services, feel free to contact us today.
