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Remote Part-time Payer Contracting & Credentialing Specialist

Role overview

Summary

This role supports a behavioral health treatment organization by partnering with leadership on payer contracting and credentialing. You will help protect revenue integrity through reimbursement analysis and compliance reviews, ensuring accurate payer enrollments and identifying risks that could impact the organization.

Qualifications

  • At least three years of behavioral health payer contracting experience, including Medicaid MCO enrollment and commercial payer contracting.
  • Working knowledge of behavioral health CPT and HCPCS codes, level-of-care billing requirements, and ASAM levels of care.
  • Demonstrated ability to interpret Medicaid fee schedules, payer policies, and contract provisions to identify reimbursement discrepancies and operational risks.
  • Strong written communication skills, with the ability to deliver clear findings and actionable recommendations within established timelines.
  • Ability to prioritize assignments, manage deadlines, and exercise sound judgment within a defined scope focused on contracting, credentialing, and analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare and submit commercial and Medicaid organizational applications, and track contracting milestones.
  • Review payer contracts and fee schedules, identifying reimbursement variances.
  • Manage organizational Type 2 NPI enrollments and verify taxonomy alignment with licensed levels of care.
  • Conduct focused reviews of behavioral health CPT and HCPCS billing practices against payer policies.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Consulting
  • Analytical Skills
  • Detail Oriented

About the company

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Atlantic Health Strategies™

  • Management Consulting
  • Startup
  • 11–50
You didn’t enter the Behavioral Health space to drown in paperwork, stress over Joint Commission audits, or troubleshoot IT tickets. You did it to help patients and build a successful business. At Atlantic Health Strategies, we handle the "business of the business" so you can focus on the mission. We are your full-spectrum behavioral health support partner. We aren't just consultants who hand you a binder of rules and walk away. We are operators who have sat in your seat. We know that in this industry, Compliance is the spine of your operation, and a strong spine needs muscle (HR) and a nervous system (IT) to function. We act as your Strategic Anchor, translating complex regulations into clear, profitable business strategies for Founders and Investors. How we stabilize and grow your organization: Licensure, Accreditation & Compliance: We speak fluent "regulatory." From De Novo startups to multi-state expansions, we navigate the red tape so you don’t have to. We turn "audit panic" into "audit readiness." HR Managed Services: Generalist HR firms don’t understand clinical ratios or behavioral health burnout. We do. We manage credentialing, staffing, and culture to keep your team compliant and your retention high. IT Managed Services: Behavioral Health IT isn't about fixing printers; it's about HIPAA security and EHR integrity. We build secure, compliant tech infrastructures that protect your patient data and your license. M&A Advisory & Due diligence: Buying or selling? Don’t buy a headache. We perform deep-dive operational audits to ensure the asset is clean, compliant, and ready for growth. The Atlantic Difference: We bridge the gap between "Clinical Empathy" and "Business Rigor." Whether you are a Visionary Founder who hates the details or an Investor who needs to mitigate risk, we are the partner that keeps the doors open and the business growing. Let’s get to work. 🌐atlantichealthstrategies.com 📩 info@ahs.team

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Job description

This is a remote position.

Remote | Approximately 10 hours per week | $50 per hour | W-2 employment

About the Organization

Our client is a behavioral health treatment organization serving individuals navigating substance use disorders, mental health conditions, and related behavioral health needs.

The organization believes strong treatment programs depend on engaged operational leadership, responsive teams, accountability, and an environment where patients and employees feel supported.

The Opportunity

Our client is seeking a Part-Time Payer Contracting & Credentialing Specialist.  This position partners with the client’s leadership team to support commercial and Medicaid payer contracting, credentialing, reimbursement analysis, and focused billing compliance reviews.

The Specialist helps protect revenue integrity by maintaining accurate payer enrollments, evaluating reimbursement requirements, and identifying operational and financial risks before they affect the organization.  This highly analytical position requires independent judgment, attention to detail, and clear written communication.  Work is primarily asynchronous and email-based, with occasional Microsoft Teams meetings.

Key Responsibilities

  • Payer Contracting: Prepare and submit commercial and Medicaid organizational applications, coordinate managed care organization (MCO) enrollment and revalidation, and track contracting milestones, renewals, and outstanding requirements.

  • Reimbursement Analysis: Review payer contracts and fee schedules, identify reimbursement variances, and flag provisions that may create operational or financial risk.

  • Credentialing and Enrollment: Manage organizational Type 2 NPI enrollments and service location additions, verify taxonomy alignment with licensed levels of care, and coordinate applicable CAQH profile updates.

  • Revenue Integrity: Conduct focused reviews of behavioral health CPT and HCPCS billing practices against payer policies, covered services, and fee schedule requirements.

  • Risk Identification: Evaluate authorization and documentation requirements, analyze denial patterns, and recommend corrective actions to leadership.

  • Medicaid Research: Research state Medicaid fee schedules, managed care reimbursement structures, and provider manuals, preparing written findings to support expansion into new states.

  • Reporting and Tracking: Summarize reimbursement findings and potential financial impacts for executive review, and maintain accurate contracting and enrollment records.

Requirements

  • Experience: At least three years of behavioral health payer contracting experience, including Medicaid MCO enrollment and commercial payer contracting.

  • Technical Knowledge: Working knowledge of behavioral health CPT and HCPCS codes, level-of-care billing requirements, and ASAM levels of care.

  • Analytical Skills: Demonstrated ability to interpret Medicaid fee schedules, payer policies, and contract provisions to identify reimbursement discrepancies and operational risks.

  • Communication: Strong written communication skills, with the ability to deliver clear findings and actionable recommendations within established timelines.

  • Independent Work: Ability to prioritize assignments, manage deadlines, and exercise sound judgment within a defined scope focused on contracting, credentialing, and analysis.  Claims submission and day-to-day revenue cycle management are outside this role’s scope.

  • Preferred Background: Multi-state Medicaid experience and experience supporting a consulting organization, management services organization (MSO), or multiple facilities.


Benefits

  • Meaningful Work: Support an organization committed to ethical, high-quality behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment.

  • Flexible Schedule: Work remotely approximately 10 hours per week, with primarily asynchronous responsibilities and occasional scheduled meetings.

  • Professional Impact: Apply your expertise to strengthen payer relationships, support reimbursement accuracy, and improve financial and operational performance.

  • Compensation: $50 per hour as a part-time W-2 employee.



Salary: $40-$60 per hour

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