Medallion Expands Credentialing and Privileging Capabilities to Align with Joint Commission Standards, Enhancing Provider Onboarding and Risk Mitigation for Healthcare Organizations

AI-powered automation helps healthcare leaders accelerate credentialing and privileging, ensure compliance, and fast-track providers for safer care.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Medallion, the leading provider of healthcare credentialing and compliance solutions, today announced the expansion of its automated credentialing and privileging capabilities to support Joint Commission standards. This enhancement includes electronic privileging workflow management and automated submission of privileging applications to partner hospitals, further strengthening Medallion's comprehensive credentialing suite.

By addressing one of the most critical operational challenges in healthcare—ensuring providers are credentialed and privileged efficiently and accurately—Medallion's platform is helping organizations mitigate risk, reduce delays, and optimize workforce efficiency.

"Privileging has long been a bottleneck that directly impacts both patient care and business continuity," said Derek Lo, CEO of Medallion. "By automating and streamlining this complex process, we empower healthcare organizations to accelerate onboarding, maintain compliance, and focus on their core mission—delivering exceptional care."

As healthcare organizations navigate increasing regulatory and operational demands, Medallion's AI-powered platform delivers a seamless, end-to-end solution for onboarding, credentialing, and privileging—freeing up provider task time while accelerating privileging workflows to reduce onboarding delays and ensure faster provider start times. The system incorporates built-in business rules to accommodate the nuanced requirements of hospitals, payers, and accrediting bodies, reducing the need for manual oversight and specialized expertise.

Key platform capabilities include:

• Automated primary source verification to streamline compliance
• Privileging packet generation and committee management to expedite approvals
• Configurable workflows and electronic submissions to eliminate administrative burdens

Healthcare leaders are already realizing the benefits of this enhanced privileging solution.

"Privileging is one of the most complex and time-consuming hurdles in provider onboarding," says Heather Barrett, Chief Executive Officer at Specialist TeleMed. "At Specialist Telemed, we're committed to delivering high-quality care without administrative bottlenecks. In service of delivering the highest quality care to our patients, we're committed to streamlining our privileging workflows, reducing turnaround times, and ensuring compliance without overburdening our internal teams." 

For more information, visit https://medallion.co/solutions/privileging.

About Medallion

Medallion is the leading provider network management platform that unites provider operations and empowers end-to-end automation for credentialing, enrollment, and monitoring. We free healthcare teams to focus on what matters by enabling healthcare organizations to quickly and accurately manage and grow their provider networks with our AI-powered technology. By automating burdensome administration workflows, operations teams can better manage their provider networks, deliver superior care, speed up revenue paths, and elevate provider satisfaction levels.

Medallion is recognized on the Newsweek Excellence Index 2025 as well as No. 3 on Inc. magazine's 2024 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Pacific Region, No. 5 on the LinkedIn 2024 Top Startups list, a 2024 Modern Healthcare "Best in Business" winner, the 2024 Best Healthcare Network Management Platform in the AI Global Excellence Awards, one of Glassdoor's Best Places to Work in 2025 and 2024, and a 2023 winner on Forbes' "Next Billion-Dollar Startups" list. Medallion is paving the future of provider network management. To learn more, visit Medallion.co or join the conversation on LinkedIn.

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