Andros vs CertifyOS
Updated October 16, 2026
Health plans and telehealth networks trying to credential providers faster often weigh Andros against CertifyOS. Andros runs credentialing as an NCQA-certified service with human reviewers, while CertifyOS sells an API-first data layer that a plan's own team operates. The biggest change this year is that Andros now belongs to Medallion, which buyers should factor into any long contract.
Our analysts compared Andros and CertifyOS on verification speed, service model, committee support, API access, and rollout needs, using the HIR review of each company and Andros's own announcement. In the following sections, we compare their approaches, describe the plan each suits, and cover the Andros acquisition.
Andros vs CertifyOS at a glance, October 2026
| What buyers weigh | Andros | CertifyOS |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | NCQA-certified verification services and a credentialing platform sold to health plans, government agencies, and telehealth networks. Prices are quoted for each customer. | A provider data and credentialing platform for health plans and digital health companies, with prices quoted for each customer. |
| What drives cost | How many files you send, how much ongoing monitoring you need, whether Andros runs committee steps, and whether results come through an API or a portal. | The number of providers, which modules you use (credentialing, enrollment, monitoring, API), and how thorough the checks are. |
| Speed and accuracy | Andros scores 7.9 for how fast credentialing files close and whether they are ready for NCQA audits. | CertifyOS scores 7.9 for days to onboard a provider and how accurate provider rosters stay. |
| Product depth | Andros combines automated verification with human reviewers, ongoing monitoring, and network approval steps. | CertifyOS covers credentialing, licensing, enrollment, and monitoring on one provider data platform. |
| Credentialing staff as a service | Andros runs credentialing work as a service, so a plan can retire spreadsheet tracking and older outsourced queues. Clear edge | CertifyOS needs a network-operations team at the plan that owns its data feeds and data-use agreements. |
| Committee and network approvals | Andros can administer the credentialing committee and network approval steps for a plan. Clear edge | CertifyOS supplies the license, enrollment, and monitoring data that a plan's committee reviews. |
| Connecting through an API | Andros delivers results through its platform and portal, with an API option that affects price. | CertifyOS is built API-first, so plans and digital health companies can feed provider data into their own systems. Clear edge |
| Getting live | Going live needs clean provider data feeds and someone who owns committee decisions. | Going live needs data-use agreements and a network-operations owner. |
| Time to full value | About 3 to 8 months | About 4 to 10 months |
| What you need first | A clean provider list and data feeds from your source systems. | A named credentialing or network operations lead. |
| Deal-breaker | You need an outpatient EHR, not credentialing software. | No one will own incomplete credentialing files. |
| Pricing clarity score | 7.0 | 7.1 |
| HIR overall score | 7.6, Recommend. | 7.7, Recommend. |
| Best for | Health plans and telehealth networks that need NCQA-certified CVO throughput. | Health plans and digital health companies that need API-first credentialing, licensing, and roster monitoring. |
| Not a fit for | Provider groups that only need a lightweight license lookup inside an EHR. | A solo clinic that only needs a shared credential folder for a handful of physicians. |
Which fits which buyer
Ask whether you want to hand off the work or own the data.
Choose Andros if
- You want an outside team to run verification and committee administration.
- You are retiring spreadsheet tracking and older outsourced queues.
- You are comfortable with a roadmap now shaped by Medallion.
Choose CertifyOS if
- Your engineers want provider data delivered by API into your own systems.
- You have a network operations team that owns data feeds and agreements.
- You want credentialing, licensing, enrollment, and monitoring on one data platform.
Verdict
CertifyOS scores a little higher and suits plans with the staff to run an API-driven program. Andros suits plans that want the credentialing work done for them by certified reviewers.
Small clinics needing only a shared credential folder should skip both.
Where the two tools are headed in 2027 and beyond
Andros: Andros was acquired by Medallion on September 15, 2026, and its customers are moving onto Medallion's credentialing platform over time.
Andros customers should ask for written commitments on service levels through the transition.
Methodology
Each row comes from the HIR reviews of Andros and CertifyOS, scored under the HIR method, and from each vendor's public pricing where it exists. Any published price for Andros or CertifyOS was checked on that vendor's own site on October 16, 2026.
A green check marks a clear edge for Andros or CertifyOS only where their review scores differ by at least 0.3 points or the two reviews show a plain difference. Rows with nothing published for either Andros or CertifyOS are left out, and time to full value for each adds up the rollout stages in its review.
Sources
- HIR review of Andros and HIR review of CertifyOS
- Andros website
- CertifyOS website
- Medallion acquires Andros, September 15, 2026