Health New England is a participating plan in the Health Care Administrative Solutions (HCAS) credentialing initiative. Beginning in early 2007, a streamlined recredentialing process will be initiated for Massachusetts physicians. This new process will include use of the Universal Credentialing DataSource (UCD), the database used by the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH). Many of you have already begun to use the CAQH application process, and paper copies of the CAQH or Massachusetts Uniform Application will be accepted for a limited time to complete the current two year recredentialing cycle.

Allied Health Providers may continue to use the MA Uniform Credentialing Application or can register for CAQH and send a paper copy of that registration to HNE.  For updates about on-line application submission for Allied Health Providers, go to www.hcasma.org.