CAQH re-attestation is every 120 days — and the reminder schedule is not what vendors say

The interval

CAQH’s own Provider User Guide states: "Re-attestation is required every 120 days (180 days for Illinois providers) in the CAQH Provider Data Portal to ensure your data is maintained and accurate for health plan use."

If no re-attestation occurs, the provider is put in "Expired" status on the day after it was due. The portal’s own status definitions confirm that an Expired Attestation means an attestation more than 120 days old.

A separate 120-day rule catches people out: signed supporting documents, including the state Authorization/Attestation/Release form, must be submitted within 120 days of their signature date or they are not accepted.

Source: CAQH Provider User Guide v43 (PDF)

The reminder schedule, and a correction worth making

CAQH’s guide lists re-attestation reminder emails at 15 days prior to expiration and 10 days prior to expiration. Follow-up notices go the day after expiry and again at 14, 28 and 42 days after, the last being final.

Numerous credentialing vendor articles state that CAQH sends reminders at 30, 14 and 3 days before the due date. That does not match CAQH’s own documentation. We are flagging it rather than repeating it, because a practice planning around a 30-day warning that does not exist has less notice than it thinks.

[UNVERIFIED] CAQH’s published guide has a third reminder bullet where the number is missing from the document itself — it reads literally "o days prior to expiration". We do not know what that number is and will not guess. Confirm inside the portal.

Source: CAQH Provider User Guide v43 (PDF)

CAQH is now DataSpring

CAQH has rebranded as DataSpring and become a for-profit company owned by shareholder companies affiliated with health plans. The platform is still called the CAQH Provider Data Portal, portal access and existing profiles are unchanged, and it remains free to clinicians and practices.

Source: CAQH — for providers