Speech Therapy
Track ASHA certifications, state licensure, and payer enrollments for your speech-language pathologists and SLPAs. Credentialing Now handles the complexity of ST credentialing so you don't have to.
Speech therapy credentialing involves ASHA certification, state-specific licensure, and payer requirements that differ from other therapy disciplines. We built our platform to handle these specifics.
Monitor CCC-SLP and CCC-A certifications, track continuing education credits toward ASHA maintenance, and get alerts before renewal deadlines.
SLP licensing requirements, CE mandates, and renewal cycles differ across states. Track every license and deadline in one centralized system.
Navigate the enrollment process with commercial payers, Medicare, and Medicaid for your SLPs. Track application status and revalidation timelines.
Track SLPA registrations and state-specific scope-of-practice documentation alongside your SLP providers, with document storage for any required supervision paperwork.
Whether your SLPs work in clinics, schools, or both, manage the different credentialing requirements for each setting from one platform.
Store diplomas, ASHA certificates, state licenses, and payer correspondence in organized, provider-specific profiles.
Set up profiles for your SLPs and SLPAs, upload their ASHA certificates, state licenses, and existing credentialing documentation. We'll help with the initial setup.
Credentialing Now monitors ASHA renewal dates, state license expirations, CE credits, and payer revalidation deadlines. Get alerts before anything is due.
With credentialing running smoothly in the background, your practice stays compliant, your billing stays uninterrupted, and your team can focus on patients.
Credentialing an SLP layers national certification on top of state licensure, with a clinical fellowship stage that most other therapy disciplines don't have. Here's what a complete file looks like.
The Certificate of Clinical Competence from ASHA is the credential most payers look for when enrolling an SLP. Keeping it active means paying annual dues and meeting ASHA's ongoing professional development requirements — a maintenance cycle that runs separately from state license renewal.
Every SLP needs an active license from the licensing board in each state where they treat patients, and it's separate from ASHA certification — holding the CCC doesn't substitute for a license. Renewal cycles and CE requirements differ by state, so multi-state and telepractice providers carry multiple renewal calendars.
New graduates complete a clinical fellowship before earning the full CCC-SLP, and many payers won't enroll a clinical fellow until certification is complete. During the CF period the practice has to manage provisional licensure, mentor supervision records, and a plan for which payers the fellow's visits can be billed to — then start enrollments promptly once the CCC is granted.
SLPs in private practice can enroll with Medicare and bill outpatient speech-language pathology services directly. Enrollment runs through PECOS with a Type 1 NPI per provider and a Type 2 NPI for the practice, and Medicare requires revalidation every five years to keep billing privileges active.
Medicaid enrollment is state-specific, and SLPs who split time between school-based services and clinic work often face two different billing pathways: school Medicaid programs have their own provider qualification rules, separate from outpatient clinic enrollment. Practices staffing both settings need each provider's status documented for each pathway.
Commercial payers pull SLP credentialing data from CAQH ProView, which must be re-attested every 120 days. Applications also require a current certificate of insurance for professional liability, and practices are expected to screen every provider against the OIG exclusion list and SAM.gov on an ongoing basis.
Often not. Many payers require the full CCC-SLP before they'll enroll a provider, which means a clinical fellow may be limited in which payers their visits can be billed to during the CF year. Practices hiring CFs should verify each payer's policy up front, document mentor supervision, and be ready to submit enrollments as soon as the CCC is granted.
In practice, yes. The state license is the legal requirement to treat patients, while the CCC-SLP is what most payers look for at enrollment. They renew on separate cycles with separate CE and dues requirements, so each SLP effectively has at least two credentials to keep current — more if they're licensed in multiple states.
Commercial enrollment typically takes 60 to 150 days per payer, and state Medicaid timelines vary. Because an SLP usually can't bill in-network until each enrollment is effective, practices start applications at hire and keep the provider's CAQH profile re-attested every 120 days so payers can process without back-and-forth.
The billing pathways differ. School Medicaid programs have their own provider qualification rules — some states also require a separate education credential — while clinic work runs through standard Medicaid and commercial enrollment. An SLP working both settings needs documentation current for each, which is why practices track setting-specific credentials per provider rather than one status per person.
See how Credentialing Now handles ASHA tracking, state licensure, and payer enrollment for SLP practices.
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