Everything we get asked — answered honestly.

You don't have to do it alone. Fledge is a business partner built specifically for SLPs, in your pocket from day one. No payment at all to walk you through setup; we only charge later, when we handle your billing for you.

Yes. The entire setup walkthrough is free. No signup, no paywall, no credit card. The only thing we'll ever charge for is the optional billing service that's coming after Phase 1.

No. Start the conversation and your progress follows you on this device. Nothing is tied to an email, a phone number, or a credit card.

We'll still take your state and hold a spot for you. Every fact in the guide is verified against that state's rules firsthand, which is why we're rolling out one region at a time rather than launching everywhere with guesses.

About three minutes to walk through the orientation and another five or ten to capture your practice details. The paperwork itself is slower. Entity formation is usually same-day, EIN is instant, and credentialing runs sixty to ninety days per payer.

Every state-specific fact — fees, timelines, links, agency names — was sourced firsthand from the state's licensing or revenue agency, not summarized from a third-party blog. If we couldn't verify it, we don't show it.

Phases 0, 1, and 2: pick your state, form your business, and stand up your provider identifiers (NPI Type 1, NPI Type 2, CAQH). Phases 3 through 5 — payer panels, credentialing applications, and clinical operations — are on deck.

Probably, but not yet. Speech-language pathology has its own credentialing quirks — CCC-SLP, ASHA membership, specific ICD codes — that don't map cleanly onto OT, PT, or mental health. We'd rather do one specialty really well than four halfway.

Whenever the underlying agency changes them. We monitor the source pages and re-verify on a quarterly cadence at minimum. If you spot something stale, the contact link in the footer goes straight to us.

By default: nothing that leaves your browser. Your wizard answers live in this device's local storage so the conversation can resume where you left off. There is no signup, no analytics tied to your identity, and no third-party trackers on the wizard pages.

Your device's local storage. They are not posted to a Fledge server. If you clear your browser data, your answers are gone. If you ever opt into a feature that needs the answers on our side — for example the billing service — we'll ask first and tell you exactly what's leaving the device.

No. The Privacy page spells this out in plain English.

The optional billing service that comes online after Phase 1 — submitting claims, chasing denials, posting payments. That's a per-claim fee, paid out of what you collect. The setup walkthrough stays free regardless of whether you use the billing service.

Yes. The walkthrough will stay free, indefinitely, with no feature gates. We'd rather you finish credentialing using us and walk away than feel cornered into a billing contract you didn't want.