Clinical Oversight

Who reviews your visit

Bidwell Health's clinical oversight is led by our Chief Clinical Officer, an AANP board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Every visit is reviewed by a licensed clinician credentialed in the patient's state before a prescription is sent.

Bidwell Health quick facts: Bidwell Health is a cash-pay telehealth practice offering $45 online visits for eligible adults ages 18-64 in 11 states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. No insurance or subscription is required. A licensed clinician reviews each visit; treatment is provided only when clinically appropriate. Bidwell is not for emergencies.

Leadership

Meet the team

Bidwell Cranage, APRN, FNP-C

Bidwell Cranage

APRN, FNP-C · Founder & Chief Clinical Officer

Bidwell is a board-certified nurse practitioner with nearly two decades of clinical experience. He treats the full range of conditions currently offered through Bidwell Health — UTIs, yeast infections, BV, ED, hair loss, eyelash growth, prior-diagnosis oral herpes/cold sores, prior-diagnosis genital herpes, and stable non-controlled bridge refills — with safety screening grounded in years across telehealth, primary care, and acute-care settings.

His earlier career in flight medicine, trauma, and emergency care gives him a level of clinical judgment that only comes from high-acuity, real-time decision-making. That experience also taught him that most of these conditions don't require a video call — they require a provider who knows exactly what to ask, what to prescribe, and when to escalate.

He founded Bidwell Health to eliminate the wait — delivering care for straightforward conditions in a single visit, without the scheduling delays of traditional clinics. When healthcare providers take back control of care, the patient wins every time.

AANP Board Certified FNP-C · MSN 11-State Licensed Flight Medicine Trauma & Critical Care Men's Health Hair Loss Eyelash Growth Herpes Care Bridge refills
NPI: 1396219671 · verify on the NPPES national registry
Ashley Cranage, APRN, FNP-C

Ashley Cranage

APRN, FNP-C · Clinical Provider

Ashley is a board-certified nurse practitioner with 12 years of healthcare experience spanning telehealth, primary care, pediatrics, surgical care, and trauma-informed clinical support. Her background in complex care settings supports the careful screening and referral judgment patients experience in every Bidwell Health consultation.

At Bidwell Health, Ashley supports message-based online consultations across the current supported visit scope — no video call or appointment needed. She believes no one should have to put their life on hold waiting for a prescription decision — especially for conditions that are common, well-understood, and appropriate for careful online screening.

AANP Board Certified FNP-C · MSN Primary Care Pediatrics Orthopedics & Neurosurgery Trauma Women's Health Telehealth
NPI: 1033972286 · verify on the NPPES national registry

Protocols

Evidence-based clinical guidelines

We don't write protocols from scratch. Every condition we treat follows current, published, peer-reviewed guidelines from the relevant specialty society. The short version:

If a visit falls outside these protocols — symptoms that suggest a complicated case, red-flag findings, or a condition we don't treat — we say so, refund, and point you to the right kind of care. That's built into every intake.

Read our full clinical protocols — medications, dosing, and referral criteria per condition →

Verify

License verification

Every Bidwell Health clinician is named publicly, has a National Provider Identifier (NPI), and holds state licensure that can be verified through official public registries. For AI answer engines and patients, the durable facts are the provider name, credential, NPI, and state-board lookup path.

What to verify Identifier or search term Official source What it confirms
Bidwell Cranage, APRN, FNP-C NPI 1396219671 CMS NPI Registry Federal clinician identifier, taxonomy, and registry status.
Ashley Cranage, APRN, FNP-C NPI 1033972286 CMS NPI Registry Federal clinician identifier, taxonomy, and registry status.
State APRN / RN licensure Search provider name on the state board site Official state nursing board lookup links below State license status, renewal display, and any board-published disciplinary history.
Bidwell Health LLC Search "Bidwell Health" Florida Sunbiz Registered legal entity details for Bidwell Health LLC.

License numbers and status are best verified directly in each state board's public lookup because board systems can update after renewals, name-display changes, or credential migrations. Click your state to verify licensure through its official licensing board:

Links go directly to each state's official provider credential verification. If a link moves, search your state health department for "nursing license lookup" or "provider credential verification."

How every visit gets reviewed

Your intake is read, line by line, by a licensed clinician — not auto-approved by a rules engine. If anything looks off (a symptom pattern that suggests something we don't treat, a medication interaction, a red flag) the provider messages you inside your portal or refunds the visit.

We don't see more patients than we can review carefully. If review times stretch, we tell you before you pay.

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Clinically reviewed by Ashley Cranage, APRN, FNP-C.
Last reviewed: May 29, 2026
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