If you logged into the CAQH Provider Data Portal this week and saw a new name on the screen, you read it right. As of June 8, 2026, CAQH is now DataSpring, powered by CAQH. The new brand went live alongside the AHIP conference, and the website has already changed over.
We run credentialing operations for dental groups and DSOs all day, so the first question we received from a few clients was the right one: does this break anything? Short answer — no. But a name change is a fair reason to take a second look, so here's the plain version for dental specifically.
What actually changed
The name, and not much else you can see today. CAQH rebranded to DataSpring "powered by CAQH." The company says it's a brand evolution that reflects a broader role connecting provider and payer data across healthcare — not a new product you have to learn.
What did not change
For your providers and your office, the things that matter are all still in place:
- The portal. The Provider Data Portal still exists under that name. Your providers still complete their information once and share it with the plans they authorize.
- The logins. Existing credentials still work. Nobody needs to create a new account.
- The data. Profiles, uploaded documents, and attestation history carry over. No one is starting from zero.
- The workflow. The fill-it-out-once, let-the-plans-pull-from-it model is unchanged. Attestation schedules and re-attestation windows are the same.
If you do nothing, nothing breaks.
Why this matters more for dental than people assume
There's a habit in our industry of treating CAQH as a "medical thing." It most definitely is not. A growing share of dental plans (i.e., Cigna, Connection Dental, Aetna, etc.) and your providers' medical-side credentialing — think oral surgery, sedation, and medical billing for surgical procedures — lean on that same provider data record. When a provider's CAQH profile is stale or their attestation lapses, it doesn't announce itself. It quietly shows up later as a denied claim, a delayed enrollment, or a provider who can't bill at a location they're already working. That is why keeping your CAQH record attested every 120 days is so important!
A rebrand is harmless. The real risk is the thing the rebrand reminds you of: provider data is one more live system someone has to own, on top of re-credentialing cycles, license renewals, payer rosters, and the enrollment paperwork that never fully ends. None of it touches a patient. All of it can stall your revenue.
The part most groups get wrong
In most growing dental groups, this work is scattered. One office manager handles attestations when she remembers. A regional lead chases enrollment when a payer flags it. Nobody owns the whole picture, and the gaps only surface when money is already stuck.
That's the problem we exist to solve. At Credentialing DDS, we don't hand your team a checklist and wish them luck — we run credentialing as an operation. We've completed more than 8,815 applications in the last 12 months, all of it dental, all of it on a platform built to keep provider data, attestations, and enrollments current across every location and every payer you work with.
So when something like a CAQH rebrand lands, our clients don't have to wonder whether it affects them. We already know, and we've already handled it.
What you should actually do today
For most groups, the honest answer is: confirm and move on.
- Have someone log in and confirm your providers' profiles still look right.
- Check whether any provider is coming up on a re-attestation window, and handle it while you're in there.
- Make sure the right plans still have access to each provider's record.
- Update any internal bookmarks if a dataspring.com link replaces an old caqh.org one in your workflow.
And if the credentialing side of running a group has become the part you'd happily never think about again — that's the part we take off your plate entirely. If that sounds worth a conversation, let's talk.