The build is done, the CO is on the wall, payroll has started — and your first insurance payment is still months away. The licensing, enrollment, and credentialing gauntlet between opening day and your first dollar, and how to compress it.

Construction can be finished and your clinic still can't open. The last 2% of a healthcare build runs on inspections and approvals you don’t control. Here's how the inspection-to-CO gauntlet actually works, and how to get ahead of it before your opening date slips.