- June 17, 2025
- Credentialing
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced plans on June 3 to invest in technology that gives Medicare patients and providers easier access to data, our ears perked up, especially around the idea of a national provider directory.
As Fierce Healthcare reported, CMS wants to build a centralized healthcare directory, starting with provider information, with the goal of creating a single source of truth: a reliable, up-to-date database of provider credentials that others across the system can use and build on.
At Modio, we’ve long championed the need for a single source of truth in provider credentialing. Today, providers often have to repeatedly submit their education, licenses, board certifications, and work history to different systems. Without a centralized source, the process becomes redundant, time-consuming, and prone to delays. Now imagine if this data could be automatically pulled from trusted sources like medical schools or licensing boards and stored in a single, standardized system. That would mean no more chasing paperwork, repeating verifications, or wasting providers’ and credentialers’ time.
CMS’s move is a promising step toward fixing what is currently a fragmented and inefficient process. Of course, bringing all this data together — and keeping it accurate and up to date — is not a small task. For hospitals to confidently use this system to verify credentials, privileges, and licensure, access to real-time primary-source verification updates will be essential. CMS may be one of the few entities with the reach and resources to pull this off.
The question now is: how will they do it? We’ll be watching closely as the effort unfolds.
Ready to see what a smarter, faster credentialing process looks like today? Modio’s OneView platform is already helping organizations centralize provider data, reduce redundancies and speed up verifications. Learn more at Modio Health.