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Acorn Healthcare Credentialing Solutions

Innovative credentialing solutions created by experts for medical groups, hospitals, & health plans. We are committed to client success.

Acorn Credentialing Solutions is a passionate team of medical, technical, and credentialing experts who envision a healthcare system that works better for everyone. We understand your credentialing challenges because we’ve been there ourselves. Acorn solutions solve the same problems that we’ve faced as providers, hospital administrators, and medical staff. We designed the Acorn platform with all healthcare system users and stakeholders in mind. It’s a complete solution that goes beyond basic functionality to create value through process efficiency and eliminating costs and risk. Providers, credentialing specialists, and insurance payers get tailored views of the information they need while Acorn streamlines workflows, automates tasks, and manages data. We can help you overcome your business challenges, and improve patient outcomes and overall satisfaction.

02/12/2026

Celebrating Ambulatory Care Nurses Week 🎉🥳

02/12/2026

We’re celebrating Ambulatory Care Nurses Week (Feb. 9 - 13) and the nurses who embody this year’s theme: “Where Compassion Meets Innovation.”

As more care shifts to the outpatient setting, ambulatory care nurses are at the front lines of access, quality, and cost. The bring special skills, training, and mindset to their work, which includes:

⭐️ Providing complex, coordinated care in clinics, practices, and virtual settings.
⭐️ Helping patients prevent illness and manage chronic conditions.
⭐️ Bridging gaps across primary and specialty care, keeping people out of the hospital.
⭐️ Leading improvements that make care more efficient and more human.

At Acorn, we focus on the infrastructure side of healthcare (provider data, credentialing, enrollment) but weeks like this are a powerful reminder of who all that work is really for: the clinicians delivering care and the patients they serve.

To every ambulatory care nurse supporting individuals, families, and communities across the continuum of care: thank you for the expertise, leadership, and heart you bring to your work.

Happy Ambulatory Care Nurses Week!

02/11/2026

... our latest live webinar with Team Med Global, LLC is today at 1 p.m. EST!

Don't miss “The Latest Buzz: Hot Topics & Payer Updates” with presenters Heather Moffitt and Erin DeHoyos, who will dig into what’s changing with major payers and what it actually means for your workflows.

Save your spot; sign up today 👉 https://acorncredentialing.com/acorn-webinar-registration/

02/10/2026

Your inbox isn’t a pivot playbook. But if you’re a medical services professional, you definitely need one.

Here’s why.

Credentialing and enrollment teams live in a constant state of “urgent”: seasonal spikes, client onboarding waves, payer changes, revalidations, license renewals, portal outages. One missing document can stall 20 starts.

But working harder in your email isn’t the answer.

The teams that stay sane (and hit start dates) do a few basic things really well:
✅ They have a pivot playbook (not a perfect process). They define a handful of disruption scenarios (seasonal surge, payer changes, new states, urgent starts, portal downtime) and map out what changes when a disruption hits.
✅ They split work into two lanes, separating flow from exceptions. Standard packets go down a “flow” lane; messy cases go into an “exceptions” lane (with different staffing and metrics).
✅ They use real “definition of done” checklists. By payer/client: required docs, verification steps, portal proof, primary source checks. This kills most rework.
✅ They create a simple triage rhythm to make predictability faster. Weekly policy/seasonality reviews plus short daily triage (15 minutes max) and only two escalation windows per day instead of all‑day reprioritizing.
✅ They standardize intake. One front door, one packet, one required set of fields. Exceptions become visible decisions, not buried threads.
✅ They watch the two metrics that actually predict chaos: Exception rate plus rework rate. If they climb, the problem is process and intake, not headcount.
✅ They plan for surge capacity to avoid burning out their best people. Cross‑train support for tasks like document chasing, renewals, rosters, portal proof and more so credentialists can focus on judgment calls.
✅ They decide upfront what gets escalated (and what doesn’t). Escalations are a tax, so put criteria on them: Revenue impact, start date within X days, compliance risk, client commitment level. Everything else stays in the queue.

My point is that pivoting isn’t improvisation; it’s a prepared workflow.

When policy and seasonality change the rules, you don’t need heroics or flying by the seat of your pants. You need a system that can bend without breaking.

What’s your No. 1 disruption right now: payer changes, licensure volume, or client start‑date pressure? Share in the comments!

02/09/2026

The healthcare landscape never stands still and neither do payer policies.

For provider enrollment teams, staying current isn’t optional. It’s the difference between smooth starts and delayed revenue.

Need strategies to surf the wave of change? Join us on February 11th for our next webinar with Team Med Global, LLC, “The Latest Buzz: Hot Topics & Payer Updates”.

Speakers Heather Moffitt and Erin DeHoyos will dig into what’s changing with major payers and what it actually means for your workflows. You’ll learn how to:

✅ Identify recent payer policy changes that impact provider enrollment
✅ Adapt your workflows to meet new payer requirements
✅ Build strategies to stay on top of ongoing payer updates and trends

If you’re tired of learning about changes only when denials hit, this session is for you. Register now 👉 https://acorncredentialing.com/acorn-webinar-registration/

02/09/2026

February 9th is National Clean Out Your Computer Day! Think of it as the perfect opportunity to clear up your digital clutter, whether you do it today or sometime this week.

In healthcare, every click, file, and system matters. Behind every credential, record, and workflow is a professional trying to do meaningful work without delays, errors, or digital messes getting in the way.

Over time, old files, unused programs, and messy folders quietly slow things down. They can increase risk and make already demanding work feel even heavier.

Taking time to clean up your computer is more than a tech chore. It’s an investment in:

✅ Efficiency – faster, smoother systems
✅ Security – better protection for sensitive information
✅ Peace of mind – less clutter, more clarity

A quick cleanup (deleting what you don’t need, organizing what you do, and backing up critical data) can give you:

🧠 Space to think clearly
💪 Space to work confidently
🩺 Space to focus on what truly matters

At Acorn, we believe healthcare professionals deserve modern, reliable tools built for today’s demands—not systems stuck in the digital Dark Ages. That’s why we focus on smarter credentialing and compliance solutions that support your work instead of slowing it down.

Let’s clean up, back up, and level up our workflows. When your systems work better, so do you.

02/03/2026

“Source of truth” is the wrong goal for provider data management. “System of action” is the real objective.

If you lead, manage, and conduct provider data management services, you already know the reality: your team’s work isn’t just “keeping data clean.” You’re protecting onboarding timelines, reducing compliance exposure, and keeping downstream operations from breaking.

The problem is, when the work happens in spreadsheets and inboxes, it’s hard to prove value to executive leadership.

Spreadsheets feel practical because they’re flexible and instinctive. But they quietly undermine adoption and credibility by creating a parallel workflow outside the system.

Spreadsheets also create three executive-level problems:

1️⃣ You can’t defend decisions.
A spreadsheet can’t reliably answer the key questions leadership asks when a credentialing delay, directory issue, or access question comes up: What happened? Who touched it, when, and why?

2️⃣ You can’t show throughput and outcomes.
Your team may be doing heroic work, but if it’s tracked manually, your metrics look soft: cycle time, backlog, completion rate, exception volume, and rework. Without system-based reporting, the work is invisible.

3️⃣ You create “two versions of reality.”
The system says one thing, the spreadsheet says another. Executives will trust whichever one seems most current, which usually becomes the spreadsheet. That makes the platform look wrong, even when it isn’t.

This is why “source of truth” isn’t the goal. You can centralize data all day long, but if the work still happens outside the platform, the system becomes a repository instead of an operating model.

What leadership needs (and what helps leaders win) is a system of action:
✅ Intake and verification happen in the system
✅ Follow-ups and exceptions are routed and tracked
✅ Approvals and decisions are captured where they occur
✅ Changes are auditable and explainable
✅ Outcomes are measurable without a separate spreadsheet

And here’s the key point: adoption comes before configuration.

If you over-configure the platform before teams are actually using it, you create complexity and give everyone a reason to keep working in the spreadsheet. Start with the happy path, route exceptions, and publish the scoreboard.

If you want executive support, give executives what they value: visibility, accountability, and defensible results.

Where does the work really live in your organization today...system, spreadsheet, or inbox? Share in the comments.

02/02/2026

Our next live webinar is happening this week!

Join us on Thursday, February 5th for “Building the Bench: Onboarding, Training, and Retention in FQHCs”, featuring speakers Michaela King and Angelia Guthrie and produced in partnership with Team Med Global, LLC

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) face unique workforce challenges that traditional provider onboarding and training programs don’t always solve. From chronic burnout and turnover to recruiting for mission fit, the stakes are high for both providers and the communities they serve.

In this session, we’ll explore how can:

✅ Identify the real drivers of provider and staff turnover
✅ Build structured onboarding and training that set people up for success
✅ Create career development and growth pathways that support long-term retention
✅ Leverage tools like loan repayment programs to attract and keep talent

Don’t miss the opportunity to earn a free 1 Continuing Education Credit. Register early and save your spot 👉 https://acorncredentialing.com/acorn-webinar-registration/

01/30/2026

Healthcare regulations changed. Provider data management workflows felt it first.

That was the clear message from our January 22 webinar with Team Med Global, LLC, focused on policy, Provider Lifecycle Professional (PLP) workflows, and the front-line impact on credentialing and enrollment.

One powerful idea ran through the whole session:

operate as policy translators. Their job isn’t to debate intent; it’s to convert regulation into controls, SOPs, decision rules, and timelines that work in real systems under real constraints.

Here are a few key takeaways from the webinar:

1️⃣ Policy changes hit enrollment and credentialing first. Errors here instantly translate into revenue disruption and can impact access to care. When CMS moves, you feel it immediately in:

✅ Provider enrollment & revalidation
✅ Screening level changes
✅ Ownership/control disclosure rules
✅ Revalidation frequency
✅ Moratoria, deactivations, payment holds

2️⃣ Credential to the highest standard. No hospital has just one accreditor anymore. With CMS aligning with NCQA and scrutiny increasing, the safest strategy is to:

✅ Credential to the highest standard across governing bodies
✅ Align delegated agreements with actual workflows
✅ Treat everyone the same way and document everything for audit defense
✅ Ongoing monitoring requirements will only grow; so will the risk of sanctions as expectations move toward real-time.

3️⃣ Policy changes are not just compliance events; they are workflow redesign opportunities. From our lens at Acorn:

✅ Technology and automation are your friend
✅ Changes are an opportunity to redefine timelines, eliminate manual steps, and close gaps
✅ Strategic PLPs focus effort where impact and risk intersect—before disruption becomes damage

4️⃣ Putting technology, automation, and PLPs together. PLPs who understand how policy translates into day-to-day workflows actively protect:

✅ Patient access
✅ Provider revenue
✅ Organizational compliance
✅ Institutional reputation

How Acorn helps:

✅ Acts as your provider data and workflow backbone
✅ Helps you align delegated agreements and payer requirements with real, automated workflows
✅ Ensures your teams “do the most with the least FTE” in a world of funding cuts and stronger pay‑for‑performance pressure
✅ Use your technology to record everything, standardize how you treat everyone, and turn policy into repeatable, auditable workflows and not one‑off reactions.

The bottom line?

When regulations shift, enrollment and credentialing absorb the first impact. Licensing and onboarding feel the ripple; delegation and monitoring amplify risk over time.

If you’re rethinking how your organization handles provider data, enrollment, and compliance in this environment, we’d be happy to continue the conversation and show how Acorn can support your PLP teams. Contact us today! 👉 https://acorncredentialing.com/contact/

01/26/2026

If your provider data management process is a mess, AI doesn’t fix it — it just industrializes it.

AI only helps when the underlying workflow is solid.

If your process is still held together with email threads, spreadsheets, and “ask Jess, she knows,” AI isn’t going to save you. It’s just going to make the mess move faster.

You’ll pump out more provider records, more “almost complete” profiles, and then spend weeks cleaning it all up when it hits credentialing, enrollment, directories, and access.

What actually makes AI work is the boring foundation:

✅ One clear intake process and a shared definition of “done”
✅ Agreement on which data source wins when things don’t match
✅ Verification steps built into the workflow, not bolted on at the end
✅ Work queues that send exceptions to humans instead of making humans touch everything
✅ Audit trails so you can trust changes and explain them later.

Here’s the part most people miss: a clean process doesn’t make you rigid — it makes you more adaptable.

When something unexpected hits (new payer rules, last‑minute roster changes, incomplete docs, a system outage), you can pivot without chaos because you have:

✅ Clear ownership
✅ Defined exception paths
✅ Controls that keep improvisation from becoming permanent process debt.

Once that foundation is in place, AI becomes a real multiplier: pre-filling data, reconciling records, matching documents, flagging issues, routing work, and more. You get the benefits of automation without creating a bigger cleanup project.

No hype. AI is the multiplier; clean process is the foundation.

Has automation ever backfired—or really paid off—where you work? Share your experience in the comments.

01/20/2026

Provider data is having a moment and it’s overdue.

Every part of healthcare depends on accurate provider information: credentialing, enrollment, directory compliance, scheduling, claims, contracting, referrals, workforce planning, even patient experience.

But in most organizations, provider data is still scattered across too many systems, managed by too many teams, and updated too late. The result? Constant rework, slow onboarding, directory inaccuracies, and unnecessary friction for providers and patients.

At Acorn, we sit right in the middle of all those situations. We see the same patterns everywhere: “source of truth” debates, endless spreadsheets, duplicative outreach to providers, and downstream problems that show up as compliance risks and lost revenue.

The industry doesn’t need another database. We need a clean operational model for how provider data is created, verified, governed, and reused across every workflow along with adaptable tools to execute.

That’s the shift I’m paying attention to: provider data management moving from a back-office function to critical infrastructure. The winners will treat provider data like a product that is owned, measurable, auditable, and continuously improved and not a one-time project or a shared inbox problem.

I’m going to start sharing what I’m seeing: what’s changing, what’s still broken, what’s real vs. hype, and what teams can do right now to reduce friction and improve outcomes.

Share your thoughts (and your organization’s biggest provider data pain points) in the comments.

01/19/2026

, Acorn is hosting a live webinar this week in partnership with Team Med Global, LLC, and featuring Heidi Thompson and Nicole Keller, that will:

✅ Explain how federal policy changes affect PLP workflows
✅ Identify lifecycle functions most impacted by new regulations
✅ Outline practical steps to maintain compliance as rules shift

If you’re an navigating constant change, this session is for you. Register early and save your spot! https://acorncredentialing.com/acorn-webinar-registration/

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