CAQH dental credentialing starts with ProView, the universal provider database that almost every dental insurance company uses during credentialing. If your profile is incomplete, outdated, or unattested, every payer enrollment application you submit stalls before it starts. We set up your CAQH profile, keep it current, and handle the 120-day attestation cycle so you never think about it.
Get CAQH managedCAQH ProView stores credentialing data for 4.8 million providers. When you apply to join Delta Dental, Aetna, MetLife, Cigna, or almost any other dental payer, the first thing they do is pull your information from CAQH. If your profile is incomplete or inactive, the application doesn't move forward. It doesn't get denied. It just sits there until someone fixes the CAQH issue.
The 120-day attestation cycle is where most providers get caught. Even if nothing changed in your practice, you must log in every 120 days and confirm your information is still accurate. Miss that window and your profile goes inactive. Payers attempting routine data pulls get an inactive notification and may hold claims or flag your enrollment. One missed attestation can cascade into denied claims, delayed credentialing, and lost revenue.
Initial profile setup takes 2+ hours and most people get it wrong. CAQH requires education history, full work history, every state license, DEA, NPI, malpractice details, practice locations, hospital affiliations, and disciplinary history. One missing field or one expired document means the profile isn't complete. And an incomplete profile means payers can't use it.
Complete CAQH management so you never log into the portal again.
We build your CAQH ProView profile from scratch if you don't have one, or review and fix your existing profile. Every field completed, every document uploaded, every section verified before we attest.
We track the attestation deadline for every provider and complete it before the window closes. No reminders to ignore, no portal logins to forget. Your profile stays active automatically.
License renewed? Malpractice insurance updated? New DEA certificate? We update CAQH the same day so your profile always reflects current documents. Stale documents cause credentialing delays.
Each payer needs to be granted electronic access to your CAQH data. We manage which payers can pull your information and ensure access is granted before applications are submitted.
DSOs and group practices with multiple providers need every provider's CAQH profile managed independently. We handle all of them with the same attestation tracking and update process.
Opening a new office? CAQH needs the new practice location added to each provider's profile. We update locations and ensure payer access is configured for the new address before credentialing applications go out.
CAQH ProView is the shared credentialing database that nearly every major dental payer reads from. Instead of filling out a separate full application for MetLife, Delta, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, United Healthcare, and Guardian, you maintain one profile in CAQH and authorize each payer to access it. That single profile is the foundation of your entire credentialing footprint, which is also why a problem in CAQH becomes a problem at every payer at once.
The catch is that the profile has to be complete, accurate, and attested to be usable. Payers pull your license, DEA, malpractice, education, work history, and identifying details straight from CAQH, so a stale field or an unexplained gap does not just slow one application, it slows all of them. Getting the profile genuinely clean once is the highest-leverage thing you can do for credentialing across every payer you work with.
CAQH requires re-attestation roughly every 120 days, and a lapsed profile silently halts credentialing everywhere. The reminders are easy to miss in a busy practice, and by the time an application bounces, weeks are gone. We own the attestation calendar, keep every field current, and re-attest on schedule so your profile is always in a state payers can use.
We also handle the authorization step, granting each payer access, and reconcile your CAQH data against each payer's own application so the two always match. That reconciliation is where most preventable denials are caught before they happen. A clean, attested, authorized CAQH profile is what turns credentialing from a recurring fire drill into a background process.
When was the last time you attested your CAQH profile? If you have to think about it, it's probably overdue.
Get CAQH managedProfile never fully completed. The provider started filling it out, got through half the fields, and never finished. The profile exists but it's not usable. Payers pull it and get incomplete data. We finish it properly.
Attestation lapsed without anyone noticing. The 120-day reminder email went to an inbox nobody checks. Profile went inactive. Three payers flagged the provider. Claims went on hold. We prevent this by tracking deadlines independently.
Expired documents on file. Malpractice insurance renewed 6 months ago but the old certificate is still in CAQH. Dental license updated but nobody uploaded the new one. Every expired document is a potential credentialing delay.
Payer access not granted. The profile is complete and attested but Delta Dental can't pull the data because nobody granted them electronic access in the CAQH dashboard. The application sits in limbo for weeks before someone figures out why.
Miss the window and your profile goes inactive. Payers can't pull your data. Credentialing stalls.
Ori Bekerman, Founder
Built and scaled a multi-location dental organization. Every new provider meant credentialing with every payer at every location. The paperwork, follow-ups, and timeline tracking were never handled well in-house.
PracticeAlpha was built to fix that. Credentialing managed as a revenue-critical process, not background paperwork.
CAQH ProView is the shared online database most dental payers use to pull provider credentialing data. You keep one profile and authorize each payer to access it, instead of filling out a separate full application for every carrier. It is the foundation of your credentialing at nearly every major payer.
Roughly every 120 days. CAQH sends reminders, and re-attestation only takes a few minutes, but a lapsed profile quietly halts credentialing at every payer that reads from it. We track the date so it never lapses mid-application.
Yes, significantly. Because payers pull directly from CAQH, a complete, accurate, attested profile lets them start credentialing and recredentialing immediately. A stale or incomplete profile is the single most common preventable cause of delays across every payer at once.
A universal provider database used by most dental and medical insurance payers. It stores your professional information so you submit it once and payers pull it during credentialing instead of you filling out separate applications for each company.
Every 120 days. Even if nothing changed. Log in, confirm everything is still accurate, and submit. Miss it and your profile goes inactive, which stalls any open credentialing applications and can trigger claims holds.
Personal details, education, work history, state licenses, DEA, NPI, malpractice insurance, practice locations, hospital affiliations, and disciplinary history. Initial setup takes 2+ hours if done correctly.
Yes. Delta Dental, Aetna, MetLife, Cigna, Guardian, and most other dental payers use CAQH ProView. Without a current profile, your credentialing applications don't move forward.
It goes inactive. Payers get an inactive notification when they try to pull your data. Open credentialing applications stall. Some payers may place claims on administrative hold until the profile is re-attested.
We set up, update, and attest your CAQH ProView profile. One less thing for your office to track.