Credentialing software like symplr and MD-Staff gives your staff better tools to run verifications themselves. CertifyOS is a provider data platform with an NCQA-certified CVO built in, so verification, monitoring and roster data are delivered, not just managed.
THE LANDSCAPE
Many established credentialing tools grew up serving hospital medical staff offices and are now extending into payer workflows. Vendor details below are based on each company's public materials and announcements as of October 2026.
Healthcare operations software company that merged with Cactus Software in 2016. Sells credentialing software and, separately, CVO services for payers in full-service or co-sourced models.
Credentialing and medical staff software from Applied Statistics & Management, with PSV automation and managed care enrollment modules. Also sold as software for CVOs to run their own operations.
Credentialing software from HealthStream, which acquired payer provider-data vendor Virsys12 in October 2025 to extend into health plans.
Your staff run primary source verification inside the tool
Software license plus the headcount to operate it
Services, if needed, bought as a separate contract
Provider data lives inside the application
Each plan verifies the same providers on its own
Our NCQA-certified CVO runs verification, with under 5-day average turnaround
One contract covering platform, PSV, committee support and monitoring
Software and service from the same team, on the same platform
One API to ingest, verify, normalize and distribute provider data
SharedCred lets participating plans start from one governed packet
Credentialing, licensing, monitoring, roster management and payer enrollment on one provider record, designed around health plan networks.
Audit-ready files with source, method and timestamp on every element. 99.8% file-level accuracy at audit time with Select Health.
6-8 week migrations with parallel processing. We have moved health plans off symplr, Verisys, Aperture and homegrown systems.
