Credentialing Audit & Quality Specialist

Description

The Credentialing Audit & Quality Specialist ensures healthcare providers are appropriately credentialed with health plans and regulatory agencies. This role involves maintaining accurate records, submitting applications, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. As the primary liaison between healthcare providers and health plans, the coordinator ensures timely and efficient completion of credentialing processes.

What You'll Do

• Review and process healthcare providers’ credentialing applications to ensure compliance with health plan participation requirements.
• Verify providers’ professional qualifications, including education, licensure, and certifications.
• Maintain and update credentialing records for all providers within the health plan network.
• Submit credentialing applications to health plans for review and approval.
• Monitor re-credentialing timelines, ensuring timely renewal of certifications, licenses, and memberships.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and health plan-specific regulations and policies.
• Collect required documentation from providers, including diplomas, licenses, certifications, and malpractice insurance.
• Address and resolve discrepancies or issues encountered during the credentialing process.
• Protect the confidentiality of sensitive provider and patient information.
• Assist with audits and respond to health plan inquiries regarding credentialing status.
• Collaborate with internal departments to resolve credentialing-related issues and maintain accurate data

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications :

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions

Astrana Health (NASDAQ : ASTH) is a physician-centric, technology-powered healthcare management company. We are building and operating a novel, integrated, value-based healthcare delivery platform to empower our physicians to provide the highest quality of end-to-end care for their patients in a cost-effective manner. Our mission is to combine our clinical experience, best-in-class delivery network, and technological expertise to improve patient outcomes, increase access to healthcare, and make the US healthcare system more efficient.

Our platform currently empowers over 20,000 physicians to provide care for over 1.7 million patients nationwide. Our rapid growth and unique position at the intersection of all major healthcare stakeholders (payer, provider, and patient) gives us an unparalleled opportunity to combine clinical and technological expertise to improve patient outcomes, increase access to quality healthcare, and reduce the waste in the US healthcare system.