A family medicine practice we worked with hired a new physician in March. She saw her first patients in April. The practice didn't get paid for a single one of those visits until late July, because her credentialing with two major commercial payers still wasn't finished. That's three and a half months of billable work sitting in limbo, not because the care wasn't good, but because the medical credentialing process hadn't caught up to the calendar. This happens more often than
