This legislation also requires health carriers to accept and manage credentialing applications from the same database. Effective June 1, 2018, health carriers must make a determination approving or denying a credentialing application submitted to the carrier no later than 90 days after receiving a complete application. Effective June 1, 2020, a health carrier’s average response to approve or deny a provider’s credentialing application may not exceed 60 days. 

OneHealthPort is the organization that was selected by the Office of the Insurance Commissioner to vet and select a uniform electronic process for collecting and transmitting provider-supplied data to support credentialing and other related processes. OneHealthPort chose ProviderSource, which is a free online data collection and verification system that allows providers to manage their provider data used for credentialing.

By entering your practice data once and attesting to its accuracy, your practice will be allowed to utilize a service that: 

• Continuously reviews and verifies pre-populated provider data available through public databases.
• Provides a place to enter your practice credentialing information and upload documents to a single, secure database.
• Sends reminders when your practice needs to re-credential, or renew malpractice insurance or licenses.
• Makes your data available to hospitals and health plans when they need it.

As the sole source of provider credentialing information for hospitals and insurance carriers in Washington, utilizing ProviderSource will help streamline the credentialing process as well as improve the timeliness of information availability for hospitals and insurance carriers.