Contracts and Credentialing Specialist

## Description **Devereux** is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations providing services, insight, and leadership in the evolving field of behavioral healthcare. **Devereux-Arizona** serves more than 4,000 individuals with emotional, behavioral, and cognitive differences each year across the state. We offer residential treatment, short-term residential treatment, a private school, community-based services, integrated care services, prevention programs, respite services and therapeutic foster care. As a **Contracts & Credentialing Specialist**, you will be responsible for payer contract administration, provider and facility credentialing, compliance monitoring, and ongoing contract maintenance. This role serves as the primary coordinator for the contract lifecycle, including tracking renewals, amendments, implementation activities, and maintaining contract records. Job duties include managing assigned payer agreements and contract documentation; reviewing contract-related cost and reimbursement analyses; monitoring contract terms, deadlines, and compliance requirements; and ensuring contract records are complete, accurate, and maintained within electronic databases. This position maintains and updates electronic contract files and related databases (EHR), and serves as a liaison between payers, leadership, and operational departments regarding contract administration matters (enrollment activities, documentation submittal, payer fee schedules, payer agreements). **Pay Range: $20.05/hr - $22.05/hr** **Full Time Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm** **Remote work environment (must reside in Arizona)** **Benefits and Rewards** **We strive to create an inclusive environment, and retain the talented employees who make our organization a great place to work. We offer:** - **Paid time off** (24 days per year, increase with years of service); **Sick time** (64 hours per year) - **ASCEND,** career accelerator program and tuition assistance**. Learn more HERE** - **Retirement**, **eM Life for Mental Health and Work/Life Programs, Service Anniversary Awards** - **Free access to Payactiv**, a platform to get a portion of your earned wages between pay periods - **Quality Low-Cost Benefits** (medical, dental, vision, pet insurance): 30-day benefit eligibility waiting period for new hires! http://benefits.devereux.org #sponsored ## Qualifications - High school diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Healthcare Adminstration or related field preferred - One (1) plus year of experience in healthcare revenue contracting, finance, provider relations or related experience preferred **OTHER:** - Must be available to attend two (2) weeks of new hire orientation (paid, Mon-Fri 8:30am-5pm) - Must be at least 21 years of age or older (per licensing standards) - Valid Arizona Driver's License & pass DMV 36-month history check - Drug test within 24hrs of offer w/ negative results - Pre-employment Physical and Job Demand Assessment - Current AZ Fingerprint Clearance Card with no restrictions (or eligibility to obtain with no restrictions). **Arizona Revised Statutes Notice** (ARS 36-411 Residential care institutions; nursing care institutions; home health agencies; fingerprinting requirements; exemptions; definitions). If a person's employment record contains a six-month or longer time frame during which the person was not employed by any employer, a completed application with a new set of fingerprints shall be submitted to the department of public safety. For more information, visit HERE. **Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.** ## Company Overview **Company Overview** Devereux is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations, providing services, insight and leadership in…