Hi Adam,

Before you can be credentialed for most payers you will have to not only be licensed, but have an office address where you are currently working. This takes somewhere on the order of 90 days once you have established yourself in a practice. In the mean time most insurers do not allow you to bill to them directly. Sad, but true and this is a real problem for new grads and the practices that employ them.

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Adam--for what it's worth this was one of the reasons I did a residency. That'll open a whole can of worms on pros/cons of residencies. I got licensed during residency and found out where I would be practicing so I had all the credentialing done when I got there. Otherwise like Peter says 90 days best case.

Well the deadline to apply for that pasted last week and i didn't turn in my papers. I will have to figure it out another way.

Adam,
Short term you can file under a senior doctor's number. I'd encourage you to start gathering provider packets from the major plans in the state(s) you're targeting. That way, you'll be ready to get going ASAP. Knowing Dave Talley - TOA probably has a clear listing of all the WEB sites etc you'll need.

It is a BIG pile of paperwork initially, because of the variations in requirements. The Gov't programs are the worst! MCR DME is literally 25 pages long.

You'd think a portion of ACA would have been a greatly simplified universal application system for clinicians?

Terry

Well since i didn't get a single offer in TN i have been fishing in FL getting a few bites so hopefully FOA has that great list you speak of. But yea i can going to work on all that and get NPI number etc.