{"id":28,"date":"2011-02-23T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecareindia.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-07-27T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T06:58:11","slug":"why-physician-credentialing-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why physician credentialing is important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp_plus_one_button\" style=\"margin: 0 8px 8px 0; float:left; \"><g:plusone href=\"https:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important\/\" callback=\"wp_plus_one_handler\"><\/g:plusone><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/physician-credentialing-services.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-833 size-full\" title=\"physician-credentialing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important.jpg\" alt=\"why physician credentialing is important\" width=\"520\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a physician, it is essential for you to be credentialed and be in par with several prominent insurance carriers. You have to add this on top of your task list to improve your practice performance and serve your patients in a better way. Just like taking up professional licenses or buying a new machine for clinical procedures, getting credentialed is also an essential requisite to run a smooth practice with minimal risks. There are companies that provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/physician-credentialing-services.html\" target=\"_blank\">physician credentialing services<\/a>. You can save time and reduce the paper work by outsourcing the work to them.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let us discuss the major benefits of <strong>physician credentialing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Better payment:<\/strong> Insurance carriers pay better to the physicians who are in par with the insurance. In a long run, credentialed physicians benefit a lot and will not be over burdened with the need to collect more money from the patients. Patients who get treated by these physicians simultaneously benefit by getting maximum payment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Serve more patients:<\/strong> Credentialed physicians are considered as reliable providers and are listed in the \u2018preferred physicians group\u2019 from which patients usually select their physicians in order to get maximum benefits and avoid \u2018out of the pocket expenses\u2019. Therefore, credentialed physicians get more patients when compared to non-credentialed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Improved quality in healthcare:<\/strong> Healthcare frauds are becoming common in US these days involving a huge network of doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals. \u00a0Since physician credentialing involves complete background check on providers\u2019 educational qualifications, professional licenses, experience, fellowship programs, and residence, it helps in controlling the healthcare fraud-related crimes and ensures that only qualified physicians deliver services to patients and thereby improving the quality of healthcare in US<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Liberty to choose the fee plan:<\/strong> By being par with the insurance carriers, physicians can choose the best fee plan that will be profitable to them. Physicians can either get fee per service or take up the capitation fee model based on the average number of patients served per month with in the network of insurance carriers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Access to the fee schedule:<\/strong> The exact fee schedule for different medical procedures and services are accessible to the Physicians who are in par with the insurance carriers. This fee schedule will determine the maximum reimbursement limit for different services and will help the physicians in sending the claims accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Positive Marketing:<\/strong> A thorough physician credentialing plan can provide a positive marketing benefit to a network provider. Many MCO\u2019s attract large number of members through their cost-effective plans.\u00a0 By credentialing to these MCO\u2019s the health care professional has the best option of being chosen by millions of members subscribed to these plans. Physician credentialing and Managed Care definitely share a strong relationship through which both the physician and members are benefited.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp_plus_one_button\" style=\"margin: 0 0 8px 8px; float:right; \"><g:plusone href=\"https:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important\/\" callback=\"wp_plus_one_handler\"><\/g:plusone><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp_plus_one_button\" style=\"margin: 0 8px 8px 0; float:left; \"><g:plusone href=\"https:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important\/\" callback=\"wp_plus_one_handler\"><\/g:plusone><\/div><p>As a physician, it is essential for you to be credentialed and be in par with several prominent insurance carriers. You have to add this on top of your task list to improve your practice performance and serve your patients in a better way. Just like taking up professional licenses or buying a new machine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why physician credentialing is important?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp_plus_one_button\" style=\"margin: 0 0 8px 8px; float:right; \"><g:plusone href=\"https:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important\/\" callback=\"wp_plus_one_handler\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physician-credentialing","tag-medical-credentialing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why physician credentialing is important? - ecare India Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecareindia.com\/blog\/why-physician-credentialing-is-important\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Why physician credentialing is important? - ecare India Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"As a physician, it is essential for you to be credentialed and be in par with several prominent insurance carriers. 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