CAQH

The CAQH profile is the shared credentialing application for commercial plans. The provider, or a delegate working on their behalf, creates the profile and enters identifiers such as the NPI, tax ID and license numbers, education and training, work history with explanations for any gaps, hospital privileges, malpractice insurance, the disclosure questions, and every practice location. Supporting documents are uploaded against the profile. The provider then attests that the data is accurate and grants access to the payers that should see it. Payers that take part pull the data into their own credentialing process instead of mailing a paper application.

The name changed in 2026. Since a rebrand announced on June 7, 2026 the organization calls itself DataSpring, powered by CAQH¹, and its clinician page calls the login the CAQH Provider Data Portal, formerly ProView, and says portal access, account information, the provider profile and saved links stay the same².

A payer cannot begin credentialing from a profile it cannot see or that is not attested. Each payer still has its own enrollment steps and its own timeline, but the CAQH profile is often where a delay hides: access not granted to that payer, an attestation that lapsed, a malpractice certificate that expired, a location missing. The profile runs on a 120-day attestation cycle², and a lapse pauses every payer that depends on it at once.

The mistake is treating CAQH as a one-time setup at hire. Addresses change, licenses renew, malpractice policies roll over, and a provider who leaves takes the profile with them. Put the reattestation date and every document expiration on a calendar, add each new practice location before you enroll it with payers, and confirm payer access as part of onboarding every new provider.