Start dates drive the timeline
Enrollment is scheduled backward from a provider’s first patient day.
Enrollment, contracting, and recredentialing run as a revenue timeline, not a paperwork queue.
A provider who is not enrolled cannot bill. Weeks lost to incomplete applications, slow payer responses, or an expired credential turn into claims you cannot submit.
AZ Integrated Health Solutions (AZI) runs credentialing as a scheduled operation with named owners and due dates, tied to your billing calendar so enrollment finishes before a provider starts seeing patients.
Enrollment is scheduled backward from a provider’s first patient day.
Every payer file has a named owner, so nothing sits waiting on someone else.
Licenses, DEA, and recredentialing dates are monitored before they lapse.
Six areas where enrollment status, payer records, and billing readiness have to stay in sync.
Initial enrollment with Medicare, AHCCCS, and commercial payers.
DeliverableCompleted payer applications with approval tracking
Contract requests, negotiation support, and fee schedule review.
DeliverableExecuted contracts and documented fee schedules
Revalidation cycles completed before deadlines create billing gaps.
DeliverableRevalidation calendar with owners and due dates
Profiles, attestations, and group rosters kept current with every payer.
DeliverableAttested CAQH profiles and clean payer rosters
Licenses, DEA, malpractice, and board certifications tracked to date.
DeliverableExpiration tracker with advance alerts
Enrollment status connected to claims so nothing bills before approval.
DeliverableGo-live checklist shared with the billing team
Credentialing is the most common way an individual provider starts with AZI, and it does not require a broader management engagement.
Engage AZI for credentialing on its own, or add revenue cycle, reporting, staffing, marketing, or technology later through an integrated management engagement.
Start an individual credentialing inquiryHow the work runs
Every engagement runs the same four stages, each with a named owner and a due date tied to your billing calendar. Timelines vary by payer, state, and provider history. A new entity with no prior payer relationships typically runs six to eight months from intake to full enrollment.
Confirm the legal entity, tax and NPI records, service locations, and the payer list the group needs. Where the entity is new, this covers the group NPI, CAQH registration, and the records payers require before an application can open.
Collect and verify licensure, DEA, board certification, malpractice coverage, work history, and CAQH attestation for every provider in scope. Gaps get resolved here rather than after an application is filed.
File initial applications with Medicare, AHCCCS, and the commercial payers on your list, with contract requests and fee schedule review where a contract is needed. Each payer file has one named owner.
Track every application through to approval, follow up on payer responses, and confirm effective dates. Approved providers are handed to billing before anything is submitted, and revalidation dates go on the calendar the same day.
Credentials on the team: Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Professional Biller (CPB), and Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA), issued by AAPC.
What this looks like
A newly formed healthcare organization needed its providers credentialed with payers and the administrative infrastructure to begin delivering services. No payer relationships, no enrollment history, and no back office in place.
Provided entity-development and implementation support: provider documentation, payer enrollment, application monitoring, and follow-up ran through one team that tracked every application until it cleared, alongside clearinghouse enrollment and setup, human resources and payroll systems, and a company handbook developed in collaboration with the organization’s legal team.
Providers were credentialed within six to eight months while billing, payroll, and administrative operations were stood up in parallel. The organization moved into active operations and has since added service lines with AZI’s support.
One AZI engagement, anonymized with the client’s permission. Timelines vary by payer, state, and provider history.
Fit
A short read on whether this engagement is worth a conversation.
This fits when
Not the right fit
Hospital privileging and medical staff appointment, which the facility controls, and payer disputes already in appeal or legal review.
Send the providers and payers you need enrolled. You get back the sequence, the owners, and the timeline before anything is signed.
Start a credentialing conversationTwenty minutes on the providers, the payers, and the dates you are working toward.
A written sequence with owners and target dates for each payer file.
Scope and fees for the enrollments in the plan, with nothing signed before you see it.