Credentialing services provide an opportunity for health plans to leverage the best practices of those health care providers that excel at what they do in an effort to reduce health care costs. Automating the request for information (RFI) process offers:
- Reduced credentialing costs
- Reduced credentialing cycling times
- Reduced errors
- Better relationships with providers
- Real time analysis of submitted data
- Automated result notification
- Ease of use
- Instant support through online help
- Reduction of data entry time
- Automate submission of supporting documentation
- Accuracy of data
Tii can also develop standardized RFI portals that include multiple programs that can be launched from a single site and feature:
- Automated letter of invitation to participate
- Automatic upload of supporting documentation
- Automatic rollover of the previous years data
- System alerts as to deadlines for data submission
- Interfaces to external data sources
- Automatic calculation of scores
- Automated facility or program response notification