The library
Everything we know, written down.
Credentialing research that traces to the payers’ own manuals and the states’ own statutes, with the verification month on every page. Free to read, whether or not you ever hire us.
The library in numbers
payer playbooks, each against that payer's own manuals
state playbooks, statutes and portals included
guides and indexes in this library today
gated downloads, email walls, or lead-magnet PDFs
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The six pieces that answer what practices actually ask before they hire anyone: how long it takes, what it costs, why files get rejected, and what happens after you say go.
How to Follow Up on a Credentialing Application
What payer reps actually ask and how they deflect, counted from 994 recorded follow-up calls, with the exact questions that get a real status.
Built from 92.7 hours of our own recorded payer calls, transcribed and tallied mid-2026.
Read itThe Credentialing Wait Times Index
How long every major payer takes, taken from each payer's own published figure, with the month we verified it and the date of the next review.
Living data page, reviewed quarterly
Read itCAQH ProView: setup, attestation, and the 120 day clock
Building the profile correctly, granting payer access, and the re-attestation cycle that silently stalls every payer reading your file when it lapses.
The single most searched practical task in credentialing
Read itWhy credentialing applications get rejected
The real rejection taxonomy: the lapsed attestation, the name and TIN mismatch, the document that expired in the queue, and what each return costs in weeks.
Read itMedicare revalidation deadlines
The clock that deactivates a billing number when it passes unanswered, how to find your date, and what reactivation actually costs you in lost billing.
Read itHow credentialing works, step by step
The full process from record audit to first paid claim, including the pre-submission gate and the follow-up cadence we run, published rather than described.
Read itWhat credentialing costs
Published numbers instead of a quote form. What per application pricing covers, what a full panel runs, and where the cheap options quietly stop.
Read itThe research layer
The payer and state playbooks
The research everything else runs on. Each playbook is written against that payer's own provider manual or that state's own statutes, carries the month it was verified, and is removed rather than left to go stale when a figure fails re-verification.
Payer playbooks
Medicare, Medicaid, the national commercial plans, the Blues, the Medicaid MCOs, and the specialty networks: how each one actually processes an application.
Verification date shown on every page
Read itState playbooks
Prompt credentialing statutes, Medicaid portals, retro billing rules, and revalidation clocks, all of which change at the state line.
We file in all 50 states, published or not
Read itAnother way in
By service and by seat
The same work, indexed two other ways: by the service you need done, and by the kind of organization you are running it from.
Every service, explained in full
Enrollment, licensing, onboarding, provider and practice data, hospital privileging, EDI and EFT, and compliance monitoring, each with its scope and its failure modes.
Read itCredentialing from your seat
What this looks like for a solo provider, a group, a behavioral health practice, an RCM company, a health plan, or a hospital system.
Read itHow this library is written
A page publishes when it passes verification, not when it is finished
Every figure traces to a payer's own provider manual, a state's own statutes, or a federal file. Where we cannot get to a primary source, we say we do not know rather than repeating what the rest of the industry repeats.
Each playbook shows the month it was last verified and the month of its next scheduled review. A figure that fails re-verification is removed rather than left to quietly go stale.
If the facts on a page do not change when you change its subject, the page does not ship. That single rule is why this library is 35 playbooks deep instead of two thousand pages wide.
No gated PDFs, no lead-magnet downloads, no registration to read a checklist. The research is either useful in public or it is not useful.
Payer playbooks review quarterly and state playbooks on a longer cycle, because statutes change more slowly than payer policy. Reviewed by the Go Credentialing operations team.
In the writing queue
What lands here next
Published without dates attached, because the gate is verification rather than the calendar. Need one of these before it lands? Ask and we will answer from the playbook directly.
Medicare provider enrollment, the PECOS guide
Measured demand, and the enrollment path where filing speed is worth up to 30 days of retroactive billing.
Medicaid provider enrollment, state by state
The highest measured demand of any enrollment query, and the layer where state rules decide the timeline.
Behavioral health and therapist credentialing
The highest intent slice we serve, and the one where payers route through separate subsidiary networks.
Honest comparisons against the named alternatives
Buyers search brand against brand late in the decision, and the comparison should come from someone who states the tradeoffs.
Read everything. Then decide.
If the library answers your question and you never call us, it did its job. If it raises one, that is what the phone is for.