Blog 2 of the “Why I Do This” Series | By Anne Glorioso, CEO, Solidarity Health Network ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– ———————– I know that title sounds like a terrible business strategy. Bear with me. In the mid-1990s, I was asked to hold meetings for a group of workers who had just lost their jobs in a […]
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Your Provider Roster Is Either Right or It’s a Problem
What ACA health plans — and the employers and brokers who work with them — need to know about provider directory rules, and why “close enough” stopped being good enough a long time ago. Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: a lot of ACA health plans are out there right now with provider directories that […]
Credentialing Isn’t Paperwork. It’s the Backbone of Your Network.
Every health plan and every provider network has a credentialing function. Not every health plan and every network has a credentialing *system* — and the difference between those two things is where most of the downstream pain in this industry comes from. Credentialing is the gate. It determines who is permitted to bill the plan, […]