In today’s strained healthcare landscape, provider shortages are nothing new — but the operational delays in getting providers onboarded and credentialed are often overlooked. As hospitals struggle to fill critical roles, administrative bottlenecks in enrollment, privileging, and credentialing continue to cost both time and revenue. It’s a system-wide issue with consequences that stretch from the C-suite to the bedside.

At the heart of the problem is a fragmented process. Most health systems still rely on a patchwork of systems and departments to manage provider data, verify credentials, secure privileges, and complete payer enrollment. While providers can be hired quickly, their ability to see patients — and generate revenue — often depends on how fast administrators can push them through a maze of paperwork and disconnected workflows.

The cost of delay is staggering. According to AMN Healthcare, a hospital can lose up to $185,000 in monthly revenue for each provider waiting in onboarding limbo. For large health systems onboarding dozens of providers at a time, the financial impact can quickly escalate into the millions. But there’s also a human cost: every day a provider isn’t seeing patients is another day of longer wait times, strained coverage, and delayed access to care.

That’s the gap Provider Passport is closing.

Provider Passport is a unified platform designed to simplify provider onboarding from end to end. What sets it apart isn’t just the breadth of services it offers. It’s the fact that every piece of the process is automated. The company’s proprietary TruMation™ framework ensures that tasks traditionally bogged down by manual input, faxed documents, and endless follow-ups are instead executed seamlessly, with minimal human intervention.

With a single NPI number, Provider Passport can generate a complete, verified provider profile in under 60 seconds. Credentialing packets are built automatically using data aggregated from over 600 primary sources. The system also supports instant privileging and leverages a payer plan catalog of more than 4,500 mapped payer plans to file and follow up on enrollment applications — autonomously.

This level of automation matters. It doesn’t just shave hours or days off the process — it reduces onboarding timelines by up to 88%, helping providers see patients sooner and letting hospitals reclaim revenue that might otherwise be lost to delays.

“Healthcare systems today are facing dual pressures: filling critical staffing gaps while also improving margins,” said Harman Dhawan, Founder and CEO of Provider Passport. “You can’t afford to have a new provider sitting on the sidelines for 60 or 90 days because of outdated credentialing workflows. That’s what we solve — and we solve it completely.”

Beyond speeding up individual steps, Provider Passport offers health systems something that’s long been missing in provider onboarding: centralization.

Traditionally, onboarding has spanned multiple platforms — one for enrollment, another for credentialing, and still another for privileging or document storage. This disjointed setup not only increases the risk of errors and redundancy, but also slows communication between departments and creates compliance vulnerabilities.

Provider Passport eliminates the silos by unifying all functions into a single, secure platform. From license renewals and sanction monitoring to peer reviews and privileging, every task lives within one consistent workflow. That unified experience not only improves visibility and accountability — it empowers administrative teams to manage more providers with less effort.

The system also supports Management-by-Exceptio, which allows organizations to focus only on items that need attention, rather than combing through every step manually. Automated alerts and task prioritization help staff catch issues early — before they become bottlenecks — and ensure nothing slips through the cracks.

“The onboarding experience doesn’t just affect providers — it affects finance, compliance, operations, and ultimately, patient care,” Dhawan added. “When we streamline this process, we’re giving health systems the ability to move faster without compromising on accuracy or quality.”

As demand for providers continues to rise, many hospitals are turning to locum tenens, advanced practice providers, and telehealth networks to fill gaps in coverage. But without a fast and reliable onboarding process, even these stopgaps can fall short.

Provider Passport is uniquely positioned to support these dynamic staffing models. Because its workflows are fully customizable and automated, health systems can onboard temporary providers, large physician groups, or remote specialists without creating additional administrative overhead. The platform scales easily — and integrates with existing EHRs and systems to avoid disruption.

By reducing the time and effort needed to bring a provider online, Provider Passport helps organizations stay agile, meet patient demand, and maintain continuity of care — even in times of rapid change.

As health systems continue to evolve, the ability to onboard providers quickly and efficiently will only grow more important. Credentialing delays and enrollment hurdles are no longer acceptable — not for hospitals trying to stay financially healthy, and not for patients waiting to receive care.

Provider Passport offers a modern solution to an outdated process. By unifying and automating every step of provider management, it enables healthcare organizations to respond faster, onboard smarter, and keep their clinical workforce where it belongs — with patients.