We provide a lot of Provider Enrollment services to our customers.  Most of this entails submitting the applications for individuals to get them enrolled as providers in the various Networks so that they can provide services to clients with different insurance companies.  In recent months since Humana changed from LifeSynch doing the provider enrollment and credentialing pieces there has been a bottleneck and providers are not getting credentialed for more than 120 days.  You cannot even find out status of a provider request until it has reached 120 days from the time you submitted it.    On another front we are also seeing another bottleneck with Aetna after the providers are approved it is taking anywhere from 30-120 days before the contract is received.    I suspect a lot of this has to do with the mergers and acquisitions going on in the industry and new management taking over.   Provider Enrollment is a tedious mission and the follow up is time consuming.  So this is just a little heads up to let you know what appears to be going on in the Industry.