Free Credentialing · Up to 3 Payers per Therapist
Get credentialed.
Keep 100% of every session.
Get up to 3 free payer enrollments per therapist, handled by your dedicated specialist team and included with TheraNest Advanced and Premier. Skip the 10 – 15 hours of paperwork per payer.
Every enrollment starts with a trial. Bring your payer list, and we’ll show you how TheraNest works and how your first enrollments get filed.
For new TheraNest customers. Your enrollments activate with an Advanced or Premier plan. *Offer terms below.
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Insurance credentialing for therapists, done differently
Commission platforms don’t disclose what they keep per session. Independent estimates start around 10%. On a $150 session, even that low end is $15, every session, for as long as you stay. With Ensora Health Credentialing, the per-session cut is $0. Ever.
Getting in-network can open your practice to clients who search for a therapist through their insurance plan. That can mean a fuller caseload, more accessible care, and steadier revenue.
On a $150 session, a 20 to 30% cut is $30 to $45. Every session, for as long as you stay. With Ensora Credentialing there’s no commission, ever. Your payer enrollments come with your plan, and what you earn stays yours.
Getting on one panel yourself means gathering your documents, filling out the payer’s application, and following up until someone reviews it. Your specialist team handles the applications and follow-up, across up to 3 payers per therapist. You provide your documents; they prepare, submit, and follow up with each payer.
How it works
Explore TheraNest free for 21 days and see how it can support the practice you’re building. During your trial, our sales team will reach out to reserve your spot for credentialing support. Enrollment work doesn’t begin during the trial.
Work with our enrollment team to complete your order form for an Advanced or Premier practice management plan. That’s what activates your included credentialing support and connects you with your enrollment specialists.
Select the payers that fit your practice and client population, then pull together what payers ask for: your practice details, your license, proof of malpractice coverage, and a complete, up-to-date DataSpring (CAQH) profile (the online profile most payers use to check your credentials). You’ll also start contracts directly with your chosen payers. Your specialists tell you exactly what’s needed and track what’s still outstanding.
The enrollment team prepares and submits your payer applications, tracks their progress, and follows up with payers. If a payer needs more information, your team tells you what to provide and keeps the application moving.
Once a payer approves your enrollment and confirms your effective date, you can begin seeing eligible clients in-network and you keep 100% of every session. From there, TheraNest helps you manage scheduling, documentation, claims, and payments in one place.
What to expect
Credentialing is not instant. Most payer enrollments take approximately 60 to 120 days end to end once your contract is in motion. The longest stretch is a follow-up with each payer’s credentialing committee, and Medicare and Medicaid queues can run longer in some states.
The 60 – 120 day timeline is the payer’s full review, and it runs across every payer you choose, from Medicare and Medicaid to commercial plans like Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, and UnitedHealthcare. That’s what the wait buys; each clinician goes through each payer’s complete credentialing process, so what you have at the end is real, billable in-network status with your whole payer mix, not a partial panel or a shortcut that unravels later.
The part of the timeline you control is the start date. The payer clock doesn’t start until your enrollment does, so a month of waiting moves your first in-network session a month further out. Start your contracts and send your documents early, and contracting and enrollment can move at the same time instead of one after the other.
Your specialist team starts the moment you’re on a Fusion Advanced or Premier plan, checking in your documents and preparing applications while your payer contracts are underway. From kickoff to each payer’s decision, the team tracks every application, follows up, and keeps you posted, so nothing sits in a queue with no one watching.
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start, run, and grow your practice. Explore TheraNest free for 21 days. When you’re
ready, our sales team helps you complete your order form for an annual Advanced
or Premier plan and hands you off to the enrollment specialists, who get to work.
FAQs
Eligibility. The credentialing pilot is available to new Fusion and TheraNest customers on an eligible paid Advanced or Premier plan, subject to Ensora Health’s determination of eligibility, capacity, and availability. Availability is limited, may be capped by volume, and may be closed, modified, paused, or withdrawn at any time without notice. Not available where prohibited or restricted by law, payer rule, or program requirement. Eligibility requires the account to remain in good standing and current on payment; if the subscription is cancelled, downgraded, suspended for non-payment, or terminated, in-progress credentialing work may be discontinued.
What “included at no additional charge” means. Credentialing support is a benefit of a paid subscription, not a free-standing or standalone service, and has no independent cash or credit value. There is no separate credentialing invoice for included enrollments. Enrollments requested beyond the included allowance, ongoing monitoring and maintenance, re-credentialing, revalidation, demographic or licensure updates, expedited handling, and re-work arising from information the practice supplied are not included and may be offered at additional cost at then-current rates.
Enrollment allowance. The allowance is per individual credentialed clinician (up to three payer enrollments on Premier; up to two on Advanced) and is not poolable, transferable, assignable, or redeemable for cash, credit, or other services. One enrollment means one application to one payer for one clinician; an application that must be resubmitted, corrected, or re-filed at the payer’s direction does not consume an additional allowance, but a new application to a different payer or plan does. Allowances not used during any time periods designated in the subscription terms will expire.
Service is performed by a third party. Credentialing and payer enrollment services are performed by an independent third-party credentialing provider. Ensora Health does not itself perform credentialing, primary source verification, or payer enrollment, does not act as the practice’s agent in dealings with any payer, and makes no representation or warranty regarding the third party’s services beyond what is expressly stated in the applicable subscription terms. Participation may require the practice to accept the third-party provider’s end-user terms.
Practice responsibilities. The practice and each clinician remain solely responsible for: initiating, negotiating, and executing all payer contracts (contracting is not included in this service); maintaining active, unrestricted licensure and required certifications, DEA registration where applicable, and malpractice coverage; creating, completing, and re-attesting a DataSpring/CAQH profile within required intervals; promptly disclosing any sanction, exclusion, adverse action, license lapse, or change in practice location, ownership, or demographics; and the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of all information and documentation submitted. Delays, denials, revocations, or claim losses caused by incomplete, inaccurate, or untimely information, or by the practice’s failure to act on a notification, are the practice’s responsibility.
No guarantee of outcome or timeline. Payer enrollment is controlled by each payer, government program, and its contractors. Ensora Health and its credentialing provider do not control and do not guarantee: acceptance onto any panel, network participation, approval of any application, any particular effective date, retroactive effective dates, panel availability (payers may close panels or restructure networks), reimbursement rates, claim payment, or any timeline. Any timeframes referenced — including references to a 90- to 180-day payer review — are estimates based on general industry and payer-published information, vary materially by payer, program, state, and discipline, and are not commitments. Payers may re-verify, audit, or revoke enrollment after approval.
Effective date and billing. Do not schedule, render, or submit claims for in-network services to a payer before you have received written confirmation of the payer-approved effective date. Claim denials arising from services or claims submitted before that confirmation are the responsibility of the practice.
Claims, comparisons, and figures. Statements regarding hours spent on enrollment, third-party credentialing fees, per-session commission percentages charged by other platforms, panel ownership under other models, and similar comparisons are general estimates drawn from third-party sources and internal analysis as of the publication date; they describe general market conditions, not any specific competitor, contract, or customer, and individual circumstances vary. Nothing here is a representation of typical or guaranteed results.
Trademarks and payer references. Payer, program, and third-party names and marks are the property of their respective owners. Reference to a payer indicates only that enrollment support may be requested for that payer where the payer accepts applications and the clinician is eligible; it does not imply any affiliation with, endorsement by, sponsorship by, or contractual relationship with that payer or with Medicare, Medicaid, or any state program.
Subscription and trial terms. Free trials, subscriptions, and plan terms are governed by the Ensora Health Master Subscription Terms and Conditions and any Order Form executed by the practice. If anything in this or any other marketing material conflicts with those documents, those documents control.
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