Not a Rōvn outcome.
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The case for change
The Status Quo, Counted
Industry surveys put physician credentialing at three to four months of waiting, while eight systems hold the same truth. The status quo, counted and cited.
Industry baselinenot a Rōvn number
- Physician credentialing
- Three to four months
- Payer enrollment, added
- Five to six months more
- RN vacancy, national
- 8.6 percent, about 158,600 roles open
- RN time to hire
- measured in months, per industry difficulty indices
§ 01 · Credentialing tail
Three to four months, before day one.
Industry surveys put physician credentialing and privileging at three to four months of waiting.
MGMA reporting puts the gap between a submitted application and completed verification at 90 to 180 days. Payer enrollment can add another five to six months before a new provider is clear to bill, per credentialing specialists MGMA has interviewed.
- Application to verification
- 90 to 180 days
- Payer enrollment, additional
- Five to six months
- Credentialing-linked denials
- Reported rising by more than half of practices, 2021
Source: MGMA, Navigating the credentialing gauntlet, and an MGMA Stat poll, August 2021, on credentialing-related denials.
§ 02 · Vacancy economics
A vacant seat keeps a running total.
The average physician generates nearly $2.4 million a year for the facility that employs them, up 52 percent since the survey was last run in 2016. Every month that seat sits empty is modeled against that same number.
- One month vacant, family medicine
- $175,994 opportunity cost
- Six months vacant, family medicine
- $1,055,966 opportunity cost
- Three months vacant, orthopedic surgery
- $821,691 opportunity cost
- 24 months vacant, orthopedic surgery
- $6,573,529 opportunity cost
Source: Merritt Hawkins, part of AMN Healthcare Physician Solutions, 2019 Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey. Figures are modeled opportunity cost, not billed or collected revenue.
§ 03 · Workforce economics
Nursing runs its own annual scorecard.
The NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report surveys hundreds of acute care hospitals every year and publishes the vacancy, turnover, and recruitment numbers below.
- RN vacancy rate, national
- 8.6 percent, down from 9.6 percent
- Unfilled RN positions, nationwide
- About 158,600
- Average open RN roles per facility
- 43
- RN turnover rate, national
- 17.6 percent, up from 16.4 percent
- Cost per RN who leaves
- five figures per departure, per industry surveys
- RN recruitment difficulty index
- over two months, per industry surveys
The average hospital lost an estimated $5.19 million to RN turnover in 2025. Source: NSI Nursing Solutions, National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report, 2026 edition, surveying 527 acute care hospitals across 40 states.
§ 04 · The claim ladder
What this page does not claim.
Not a forecast.
A cited survey result reports what a dated sample found. It is not a guarantee for any one hospital, practice, or nurse.
Not exhaustive.
These are named, dated, publicly available figures, not a full literature review. Newer editions of these same reports will report different numbers.
The numbers above are the industry's, not Rōvn's yet.
A demonstration runs against your own roster, not a national average.