It’s human nature to seek the easiest possible way to achieve results.
Making things more complicated than necessary can often create confusion and error. Yet ironically, it’s pretty standard for people to make things more complex while seeking simplicity.
1. Overthinking The Little Things
It is always essential to consider every variable and be wary of possible consequences, though it can quickly turn into overthinking. Overthinking is going beyond careful planning and consideration to dwell on an aspect of your task that doesn’t necessarily need a second thought.
Overthinking is a dangerous cycle and can be hard to break once you’ve started. This cycle can take up time that you don’t have to spare. It adds unneeded stress to the process and can cause you to “fix” things that you don’t need it, which wastes more time and worsens the product of your labor.
Science shows that overthinking has an apparent negative impact on your health. Among the many problems created by overthinking, science shows overthinking will increase your chance of mental illness, interfere with problem-solving, and disturb your sleep.
There are ways to stop overthinking and practice keeping it simple; in the credentialing world, one way to achieve this is to delegate your credentialing workload to an expert so you can focus on more productive items needing your attention.
2. Neglecting to Use the Tools at your Disposal
New technologies and processes may seem complex initially, but neglecting them makes simplicity harder to achieve. Credentialing in healthcare brings applicants through 5 stages, with at least 13 steps in each stage.
Though each step may seem crucial for you to accomplish yourself, there is a simpler way. Using partners such as 5ACVO, you can trim your 52-step credentialing responsibilities down to 6 simple steps.
Albert Einstein believes in the Three Rules of Work:
- Out of clutter, find simplicity.
- From discord, find harmony.
- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Careless credentialing can bring clutter and chaos, but by using the right tools, team, and technology, you can discover simplicity in the credentialing process.
3. Working with the Wrong People
Those with the most experience and expertise can provide crucial insight, though they risk making things more complicated than necessary. A highly experienced person may have difficulty simplifying and communicating solutions to those less experienced. Those with less experience, however, may not be able to see the forest for the trees.
It is hard to balance being an expert, calmly communicating the credentialing requirements to a medical team gathering requirements, and adequately passing the information forward accurately and efficiently to entities such as Medicaid, Medicare, and various unique health plans and networks.
It takes someone special to be persistent and show expertise, to be calm, cool, and collected but also efficient and accurate. Our team, over the years, has served thousands of providers across the country and has learned to perform gracefully during the complex crisis that credentialing often creates.
We have hundreds of years of experience with a nearly spotless 99% provider retention record. Our team is aware of the importance of these challenges and the value to our providers of working with the right credentialing squad and, most importantly, implementing the style of communicating customized to each provider.
Those aware of these issues may be the perfect asset to your team, as they know how to communicate efficiently and effectively.
How to Optimize Simplicity in Credentialing and Healthcare
Simplifying credentialing requires resolving these three points. 5ACVO is dedicated to streamlining credentialing with technology, experience, and expertise. We have reduced the traditional credentialing process from 52 conventional credentialing steps down to 6 simple steps. That’s an 88.5% reduction.
Streamlined communication helps simplify any complex problem being worked on by a team. That’s why we give our credentialing clients a single point of contact. ONE person, ONE email, and ONE phone number is all you need to access your credentialing contact at 5ACVO.
There are many ways we strive to help simplify a complex credentialing process.
For more ideas on optimizing simplicity in healthcare, check out the article 3 Strategies To Optimize Simplicity And Increase Revenue In Healthcare.
More about 5ACVO
5ACVO is a NCQA Credentialing Accredited specializing in credentialing and primary source verification and is part of the Fifth Avenue Healthcare Services family. 5ACVO sister companies include Fifth Avenue Agency (MPLI and medical malpractice insurance specialists) and Primoris Credentialing Network (credentialing and provider enrollment specialists with 54+ health plan and network provider enrollment options).
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