{"id":5458,"date":"2025-08-04T19:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:29:04","slug":"healthcare-now-radio-doctor-papers-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/modio-press\/healthcare-now-radio-doctor-papers-please","title":{"rendered":"[Healthcare Now Radio] &#8211; Doctor, Papers Please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2132088567&amp;color=%2337434f&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the <em data-start=\"7\" data-end=\"31\">Doctor, Papers Please!<\/em> post, Dr. Nick van\u202fTerheyden examines the cumbersome credentialing process faced by physicians\u2014even within the same system. Providers may be required to re\u2011submit documentation, endure multiple background checks, and wait up to 120 days before reauthorization\u2014all of which disrupt patient care and deter physician mobility.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"240\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">Dr. Nick critiques this bureaucracy as both inefficient and counterproductive. He makes the case that such delays fragment healthcare delivery, impose unnecessary costs, and ultimately disincentivize the kind of clinician agility that modern care requires. <\/span>He underscores the misalignment between procedural inertia and the urgent needs of patients and challenges the industry to rethink credentialing as a barrier, not a safeguard.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"439\" data-end=\"534\">Listen to the podcast \u201cDoctor, Papers Please!\u201d via Incremental Healthcare&#8217;s podcast<\/strong>\u00a0to gain insight into outdated credentialing that affects healthcare access and quality.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Healthcare NOW Radio Podcast Network\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/hcnradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healthcare NOW Radio Podcast Network<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"News You Can Use: Special Edition with John Bou Modio\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/hcnradio\/news-you-can-use-nycu-special-edition-john-bou-modio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News You Can Use: Special Edition with John Bou Modio<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Doctor, Papers Please! post, Dr. Nick van\u202fTerheyden examines the cumbersome credentialing process faced by physicians\u2014even within the same system. Providers may be required to re\u2011submit documentation, endure multiple background checks, and wait up to 120 days before reauthorization\u2014all of which disrupt patient care<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/modio-press\/healthcare-now-radio-doctor-papers-please\" class=\"btn btn-theme-dark read-more-link\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modio-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5459,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions\/5459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}