MEDALLION ALTERNATIVES · 2026

Medallion verifies your providers. DirectShifts verifies and deploys them.

Medallion is strong credentialing software. But credentialing a provider does not fill a shift. If your real problem is coverage, you need the whole path, from verified to working, in one place.

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Credentialing + licensing included

Multi-state licensing

Clinicians sourced and deployed

Physician, BH, NP/PA, allied

The short answer

Medallion is a provider network management platform: credentialing, payer enrollment, licensing, monitoring. It is genuinely good at consolidating those into one system. What it does not do is source or staff clinicians. DirectShifts covers the same credentialing and licensing ground and then puts the clinician in the open shift. Choose Medallion if you only need a credentialing engine. Choose DirectShifts if you need credentialing to end in coverage.

The gap in credentialing-only tools

A verified provider who is not working is still an open shift

Credentialing software solves half the problem. It gets a provider ready to bill. It does not get them into the schedule. For teams whose actual pain is coverage, that leaves a gap someone still has to fill by hand.

Credentialing ends where staffing begins

Medallion hands you a verified, enrolled provider. Then you still have to source the clinician, match them to the shift, and manage the deployment somewhere else. The handoff is yours to build.

Licensing as compliance, not capacity

A credentialing platform treats multi-state licensing as a box to check. Framed that way, licensing never becomes what it should be: a lever that widens the pool of clinicians you can actually deploy.

Two vendors for one outcome

Credentialing software plus a separate staffing source means two contracts, two systems, and a seam in the middle where providers stall between verified and scheduled.

Pricing you cannot see until you ask

Medallion runs a custom quote process with no public pricing, and reviewers place it at the upper end of the credentialing market. Comparing it against your current spend takes a sales cycle.

Why teams choose DirectShifts

One platform from verified to deployed

Credentialing that ends in a shift

Verification and enrollment are the start, not the finish. DirectShifts carries the provider all the way into an open shift, so credentialing produces coverage instead of a handoff.

Licensing as coverage capacity

Multi-state licensing is connected to staffing, so every license you add expands the pool of clinicians you can deploy across sites and states, not just your compliance checklist.

The clinicians, not just the software

DirectShifts sources physicians, behavioral health clinicians, NPs, PAs, and allied staff. Medallion gives you a platform to manage providers you already have. DirectShifts helps you find them too.

Side by side

DirectShifts vs Medallion

An honest comparison. Medallion is a strong credentialing platform, and where it leads, this table says so.

Capability

DirectShifts

Medallion

Primary source verification / CVO

Yes

NCQA-certified CVO

Payer enrollment

Yes

Multi-state licensing

Yes

connected to staffing

Yes

Ongoing monitoring

Yes

Sources clinicians

Yes

Fills open shifts

Yes

Internal resource pool support

Yes

Physician, BH, NP/PA, allied coverage

Yes

N/A

manages, does not source

End to end: verified to deployed

Yes

Managed services layer

Yes

Public pricing

Quote on volume

Custom quote only

Medallion is built for

Managing providers you already have

Consolidating scattered credentialing, enrollment, and licensing into one system of record

Health plans and large provider groups with dedicated network ops teams

Organizations whose bottleneck is verification speed, not finding clinicians

Teams that want a fully managed CVO with SLA guarantees

DirectShifts is built for

Getting clinicians verified and working

Filling open shifts, not just clearing providers to bill

Building an internal resource pool of credentialed, deployable clinicians

Using licensing to widen coverage across states and specialties

Teams that want one vendor from sourcing through deployment

Where Medallion genuinely leads

Credit where it is due. Medallion has an NCQA-certified CVO, deep consolidation of provider data, strong institutional backing, and a well-regarded customer success experience. If your only job to be done is credentialing and enrollment at scale, and you have a separate way to source and staff clinicians, Medallion is a serious, capable platform. The question this page raises is narrower: whether a credentialing engine alone solves your problem, or whether your problem is really coverage.

Which fits your team

Pick by the problem you are solving

Choose Medallion if

Your bottleneck is purely credentialing and enrollment speed

You already have a reliable way to source and staff clinicians

You are a health plan or large group consolidating provider data

You want a standalone CVO with SLA guarantees

Choose DirectShifts if

Your real problem is open shifts, not just verification

You want credentialing, licensing, and staffing from one vendor

You are building an internal resource pool of deployable clinicians

You need physicians, behavioral health, NP/PA, or allied coverage sourced, not just managed

Questions

Medallion alternatives, answered

What is the main difference between DirectShifts and Medallion?

Medallion is a provider network management platform focused on credentialing, payer enrollment, licensing, and monitoring. DirectShifts covers that same ground and also sources and staffs clinicians. Medallion gets a provider ready to bill. DirectShifts gets them ready to bill and into the open shift.

Is Medallion just a credentialing platform?

Yes. It is credentialing, enrollment, and licensing software with an NCQA-certified CVO. It does not source or staff clinicians, so if your problem is unfilled shifts, credentialing software alone will not close it.

Does DirectShifts offer multi-state licensing like Medallion?

Yes, and it is connected to staffing. Every license expands the pool of clinicians you can actually deploy across states, rather than sitting as a standalone compliance record.

How does pricing compare?

Medallion does not publish pricing and runs a custom quote process; reviewers place it in the upper range of credentialing platforms. DirectShifts pricing is based on your volumes. The fastest way to compare is to run both against your current spend.

Can DirectShifts replace Medallion entirely?

For most teams whose goal is coverage, yes, because DirectShifts includes the credentialing and licensing Medallion provides plus the staffing it does not. For a health plan whose only need is a standalone CVO, Medallion may remain the better-fit point solution. The honest answer depends on whether your job to be done ends at verified or at deployed.

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