Contracting and Credentialing Specialist – Contractor

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🌵 Arizona, California – Remote

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💵 $35 / hour

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Amity Foundation

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1969

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Amity Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the inclusion and habilitation of marginalized individuals impacted by various societal issues such as addiction, trauma, poverty, and incarceration. Established in 1981 in Tucson, Arizona, it focuses on personal growth, emotional literacy, and social responsibility for its students. With campuses in California and Arizona, Amity engages in community building and aims to promote environmental, social, and economic justice through research, development, and the dissemination of information.

📋 Description

• Work closely with Grants, Contracts and Development team; Chief Operating Officers; Program Manager; and Finance to review current plans and design a timeline for additional plans. • Make initial contact with provider enrollment for each plan. • Oversee the application and credentialing process. • Prepare, submit and track all contracting paperwork, credentialing applications and recredentialing files for all providers and facilities with commercial insurance carriers and Medicaid agencies. • Serve as the primary point of contact for credentialing activities, ensuring accuracy, timelines and compliance requirements. • Monitor credentialing timelines, proactively follow-up through the approval and contracting process. • Maintain an organized tracking system of credentialing statuses, contracting progress, rate agreements, and renewal deadlines. • Attend regular meetings to provide regular reports to leadership regarding credentialing/enrollment completions, contracting process and outstanding issues. • Develop effective working relationships with credentialing and contracting representatives to streamline processes. • Work with the Amity services faculty in Pima County to gather and verify specific information needed for applications in Arizona. • Work with the Amity Enhance Care Management and Community Supports faculty to gather and verify specific information needed for applications in California. • Ensure that all draft contracts are sent to and reviewed by relevant Amity services, finance, legal, people operations, data and executive teams. • Ensure that all fully executed contracts are uploaded to the Amity contracts repository and are also sent to all relevant Amity services, finance, legal, people operations, data and executive teams. • Stay up to date on Medicaid guidelines, commercial insurer requirements and industry best practices related to credentialing and contracting. • Perform other related duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, healthcare management or related field preferred. • 3+ years of work experience in credentialing and contracting within healthcare • Proven ability to successfully manage provider credentialing workflows and securing insurer contracts. • Strong organizational skills with eh ability to manage multiple credentialing files and contracts simultaneously. • Excellent communication skills with persistence, assertiveness and a results-driven approach. • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and credentialing and contracting portals. • Highly detail-oriented with zero tolerance for errors in credentialing documentation. • Self-motivated, disciplined, and comfortable in deadline-driven environment. • Understanding of California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (Cal-AIM) for the justice-involved population. • Understanding of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) for behavioral health services. • Understanding of regional community-level needs with regards to social services for the justice-involved population.