Your Practice. Your Contracts.

Establish Payer Contracts Under Your Practice’s Own Entity

We coordinate the included contracting and credentialing work, track payer requirements, and document participation and effective-date status for one formed practice, one provider, and up to five selected commercial payers.

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Who This Is For

The most common version of this: a prescriber who has been seeing patients through a network platform — Headway, Alma, Grow Therapy, Rula, SonderMind — and now wants the contracts in their own name, so the revenue and the payer relationship belong to the practice.

You do not have to leave those platforms to do this. Going direct and staying on a platform are not mutually exclusive, and most practices run both while the payer applications are in progress. When your own agreements load, you decide what to do next.

It also fits any practice that formed a practice and now needs its own commercial panels for the first time.

What’s Included

The organizational/group application to each in-scope payer — the piece that doesn’t exist in a transition or a provider-add
Contract review and execution coordination when a payer offers an agreement, followed by written effective-date verification
Credentialing the rendering provider and linking the Type 1 NPI under your practice’s Type 2 NPI
CAQH/DataSpring build and audit — we maintain the profile data as an authorized practice manager and track re-attestation dates. You complete and attest your own profile; attestation is the provider’s own act and we never ask for your password.
Payer portals, EFT and ERA enrollment, and system loading under your Tax ID
Directory verification so patients can actually find you in-network

Which Package Is Actually Yours

These four look similar and are not interchangeable. The difference is what already exists:

Move Existing Payer Relationships — $2,500. You already hold the contracts; they need to move to a new practice billing organization or Tax ID.
New Provider Credentialing & Contracting — $3,000. Your clinic already holds the contracts; a provider needs to be added to them.
Direct Payer Contracting — $4,000. Your practice is formed, but it does not have its own contracts. This page.
First Practice Launch — $6,000. Neither exists yet, and you also need the EHR, scheduling, and billing built.

Checkout asks two questions and enforces this. If your answers point somewhere else, it will say so instead of taking your money.

More Than One State?

Common, and worth planning for up front. A practice serving two states usually needs seven to ten panels rather than five — New York and New Jersey, for example, have almost entirely different dominant carriers, and the Blue Cross licensee changes at the state line. Additional panels are $350 each, or $1,500 for a block of five, so a realistic two-state build is $4,000 plus $1,500.

If you tell the AI Concierge your state, it will tell you which carriers actually matter in your market.

Fixed-Price Package

Choose the package that matches your situation.
Pay through secure checkout.
Complete intake and upload the required documents.
Work begins within three business days after your selected month starts, once intake is complete.
Track progress through completion; payer decisions and timing remain outside our control.

What We Don’t Promise

Commercial payers run 60 to 120 days each, on their own clocks. We submit to all of them in parallel, so the project is paced by the slowest payer rather than the sum of them, and the lever we actually control is getting a complete application accepted the first time — a payer’s clock doesn’t start until then.

Approval is also not the finish line. Roster loading, the written effective date, and directory listing are separate events, and you should not schedule as in-network until a payer confirms an effective date in writing.

And the honest part: panels can be closed to new groups in saturated markets. We work every application and document exactly what comes back — an executed contract, a documented denial, or a closeout handoff with the full history and the next action. No one can compel a payer to contract, and we don’t pretend otherwise.

Before You Decide

The Four Things Buyers Ask Us First

Answered here so you do not have to email us to find out.

Do You Work With My Payers?

Yes. We prepare and manage commercial enrollment in all 50 states, including UnitedHealthcare and Optum, Aetna, Cigna and Evernorth, Anthem and Elevance, your state Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, Humana, and the regional and behavioral-health plans that matter in your market. You pick which five you want during checkout.

Additional commercial payer: $350 each, flat.
Medicare or Medicaid, any state: $500 each, added to a commercial package.

Whether a panel is open is the payer decision, not ours. If one you selected is closed, we tell you and redirect the work.

How Long Does This Actually Take?

The day you pay. Your engagement documents and secure onboarding open right away. Your start month is reserved.
Within three business days of your start month beginning and your intake being complete, work begins. We timestamp it and tell you.
First two weeks. Applications, rosters, portal registrations and EFT/ERA setup are built and submitted.
60 to 120 days per commercial payer. This is payer review time, and no vendor controls it. We chase every file on a documented cadence and you can see the status the whole way.
On approval. You get the written effective date, confirmed portals, and payment routing, so you know the day you can bill.

The parts we control have dates. The parts payers control do not, and anyone telling you otherwise is guessing.

What Will You Need From Me?

Most practices already have all of this. You upload each item once, in your secure workspace, never by email.

Government photo ID
Current professional license for each state you practice in
DEA certificate and state controlled substance registration, for prescribers
Board certification and degree
Malpractice face sheet or certificate of insurance
IRS EIN letter, the CP 575 or 147C
Voided check or bank letter, so payments route correctly
Your practice Type 2 NPI

You do not need to hunt down a W-9. We prepare it from your organization record and send it back for signature.

You keep one job we are not allowed to do for you: attesting your own CAQH and DataSpring profile. We prepare and align everything around it, and we never ask for your password.

Has This Worked For Practices Like Mine?

They clearly explained the confusing insurance billing process and helped me create a plan to expand my business.

John Benson, PMHNP-BCOwner, BBH Psychiatric Services

$10M+recovered in aged and unpaid receivables
16+ yearsin revenue cycle and credentialing

At one PMHNP-led practice, a contracted-rate review found a payer discrepancy. Correcting it raised reimbursement 30% across four months of claims. Results vary by contract, payer, and claims.

Still deciding between two packages? Ask the AI Concierge or email hello@advanceapractice.com. We will tell you if a package does not fit before you spend anything.

We Stand Behind The Work

What Happens If We Do Not Deliver

Three commitments you are agreeing to at checkout, said plainly here instead of in the terms.

We Start On A Clock You Can See

In-scope work begins within three business days after your selected start month begins and we have complete onboarding and required access. We record Ready to begin and Work started timestamps and notify you when work starts, so the start date is a record rather than a promise.

We Fix Our Own Mistakes Free

If something we delivered does not work the way we said it would, we correct it at no charge for 30 days after delivery. You will not get an invoice for correcting our mistake.

If We Cannot Perform, You Get Your Money Back

We refund in full or in part where verifiable circumstances prevent the work — including serious illness, a licensure action that makes enrollment impossible, or our own inability to perform. We do not keep money for work we could not do.

And What We Will Not Pretend

We do not refund payer decisions or payer timelines, because nobody controls those — credentialing runs 60 to 120 days per commercial payer and a panel can close. Any company promising you approval is telling you something it cannot know.

Questions about any of this before you buy? hello@advanceapractice.com

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