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1.15.2025 2025 Credentialing Standard Changes and Delegation When are organizations required to hold delegates to NCQA’s 2025 credentialing standards? 

Non-file Review Annual Evaluation  

If a survey submission date is on or after July 1, 2025, the organization is assessed against the 2025 Standards and Guidelines, and is expected to hold delegate(s) to 2025 requirements.  

 

File Review Annual Audit 

If a credentialing file audit (CR 9, Element C, factor 2 in HPA/MBHO; CR 3, Element C, factor 2 in CRPN) is scheduled to occur before July 1, 2025, the organization should continue the routine scheduled annual delegation audits for credentialing and recredentialing files, and audit the files against the 2024 credentialing verification time limits.  

If a credentialing file audit is scheduled to occur on or after July 1, 2025, credentialing files processed by the organization’s delegate(s) before July 1, 2025, are assessed against 2024 verification time limits; files processed by the organization’s delegate(s) on or after July 1, 2025, are assessed against 2025 verification time limits.

HP 2025