Credentialing Timeline Planner
Enter a start date and your own expected duration for each enrolment phase, and the planner draws the timeline and dates each phase — plus the rules that decide when a provider can actually bill.
Add a payer type above, then enter how long you expect each phase to take. This planner has no built-in durations: enrolment turnaround varies by contractor, state, specialty and how complete the file is, and there is no published figure this site could stand behind. Use the service standard your payer publishes, or your own record of the last one.
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This planner has no durations of its own. How long an enrolment takes depends on the contractor or plan, the state, the specialty and how complete the file is on day one — it is throughput rather than a rule, and no primary source publishes a figure this site could stand behind. Enter what your own payer commits to, or what your last enrolment actually took. The preparation phase is the one you control. For the full picture, see credentialing timelines and planning and the credentialing document checklist. The operational fact that decides the money is the effective date, and for Medicare it is not the approval date: under 42 CFR 424.520(d)(1) billing privileges for the provider types listed at (d)(2) take effect on the later of the date the approved application was filed and the date the provider first furnished services at the location — so an approval reaches back to filing, and 424.521(a)(1) permits billing for up to thirty days before that where circumstances precluded enrolling in advance. Commercial and Medicaid effective dates are set by the contract and by the state, not by that rule.
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