Director Provider Enrollment

Position Overview

Director Provider Enrollment

The ideal candidate will possess extensive expertise in US healthcare payer enrollment processes, a proven track record of leading large-scale, multi-client operations, and the ability to drive operational excellence, business growth, process transformation, and technology-enabled efficiencies.

The role carries end-to-end accountability for operational performance, client satisfaction, workforce and financial management, compliance, and continuous improvement. The candidate must demonstrate strong knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance payers, and the provider enrollment lifecycle, along with the leadership capability to manage multiple layers of management and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership & Operations

• Lead and manage end-to-end provider enrollment, credentialing, and payer registration operations for US healthcare clients.
• Develop and execute operational strategies aligned with organizational objectives, client commitments, service delivery requirements, and business growth plans.
• Establish and monitor operational KPIs, SLAs, productivity benchmarks, quality standards, and performance management frameworks.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize turnaround time, application accuracy, approval rates, productivity, and operational efficiency.
• Establish standardized operating procedures, governance frameworks, escalation mechanisms, and performance review processes across enrollment functions.
• Develop scalable operating models to support new client onboarding, increasing transaction volumes, and multi-client operational requirements.
• Ensure effective operational governance through regular performance reviews, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and improvement plans.

2. Provider Enrollment & Payer Expertise

• Oversee the complete provider enrollment lifecycle, including initial enrollment, credentialing, payer registration, revalidation, recredentialing, reassignment, demographic updates, and provider data maintenance.
• Ensure strong operational expertise across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance payer enrollment requirements.
• Manage and monitor enrollment activities through platforms and systems such as CAQH, PECOS, NPPES, and payer-specific portals, as applicable.
• Ensure accurate application preparation, documentation, submission, follow-up, status tracking, and approval monitoring.
• Manage complex enrollment cases, application rejections, processing delays, missing documentation, payer escalations, and enrollment-related operational risks.
• Establish effective controls to monitor pending applications, payer follow-ups, revalidation deadlines, and other time-sensitive enrollment obligations.
• Collaborate with credentialing, provider onboarding, billing, contracting, compliance, and client teams to minimize enrollment-related delays and downstream revenue cycle disruptions.
• Identify recurring payer-specific challenges and implement corrective actions to reduce application rework, prevent avoidable rejections, and improve enrollment outcomes.

3. People & Leadership Management

• Lead and mentor senior managers, operations managers, team leaders, and large operational teams across provider enrollment functions.
• Build a high-performance culture focused on accountability, operational excellence, employee engagement, and client service.
• Develop leadership capabilities, succession plans, cross-training strategies, and talent development initiatives for key operational roles.
• Own workforce planning, capacity forecasting, resource allocation, productivity management, and operational staffing requirements.
• Monitor employee productivity, attendance, attrition, utilization, and performance trends to ensure optimal resource deployment.
• Establish clear performance expectations, individual and team scorecards, and structured management review mechanisms.
• Drive employee engagement, retention, leadership effectiveness, and continuous learning across the organization.
• Ensure effective coordination between geographically distributed teams and US-based clients and stakeholders.

4. Client & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the senior operational point of contact for US healthcare clients, managing service delivery expectations, strategic discussions, and executive-level escalations.
• Lead client governance meetings, business reviews, operational performance discussions, and executive presentations.
• Establish transparent communication and reporting mechanisms covering enrollment performance, pending applications, aging, risks, improvement initiatives, and corrective actions.
• Manage client escalations through structured root-cause analysis, resolution planning, timely communication, and preventive measures.
• Develop strong client relationships by consistently meeting contractual commitments, improving service quality, and delivering measurable operational outcomes.
• Identify opportunities for account expansion, additional service offerings, process optimization, and strategic partnerships.
• Collaborate with business development, implementation, technology, and delivery teams to support client transitions, new business onboarding, and service expansion.
• Ensure effective coordination between internal stakeholders and client teams to address payer-related dependencies and operational bottlenecks.

5. Quality, Compliance & Performance Management

• Ensure adherence to applicable US healthcare regulations, payer requirements, client-specific policies, contractual obligations, and internal compliance standards.
• Establish quality assurance frameworks to monitor enrollment accuracy, application completeness, documentation standards, and compliance with established procedures.
• Monitor application approval rates, first-pass accuracy, turnaround time, pending application backlog, aging, SLA adherence, and productivity.
• Conduct periodic operational reviews, audits, root-cause analysis, and corrective and preventive action assessments.
• Implement appropriate controls for provider data accuracy, application tracking, payer follow-ups, revalidation schedules, and documentation retention.
• Strengthen audit readiness, risk identification, exception reporting, and compliance monitoring in collaboration with internal compliance and quality teams.
• Develop data-driven improvement plans to reduce avoidable errors, application rework, processing delays, and operational risks.
• Ensure that performance targets are appropriately segmented by payer, enrollment type, application complexity, and external processing dependencies.

6. Business Ownership, Financial Management & Transformation

• Own operational budgets, workforce costs, resource utilization, productivity improvement, and cost-efficiency initiatives for the provider enrollment function.
• Monitor financial and operational performance to identify opportunities for improved margins, reduced manual effort, and better resource utilization.
• Develop and execute transformation roadmaps covering workflow standardization, process digitization, automation, and operational reporting enhancements.
• Partner with IT, product development, MIS, and business teams to implement technology-enabled solutions for application tracking, exception management, workflow automation, and performance monitoring.
• Identify opportunities for automation and AI-enabled capabilities to reduce repetitive manual activities, improve data accuracy, and accelerate enrollment processing.
• Define baselines, success metrics, and benefit-tracking mechanisms to measure the impact of transformation initiatives.
• Lead change management and adoption activities to ensure effective implementation of new processes, systems, and operational practices.
• Present operational performance, financial impact, transformation progress, key risks, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required a Master Business Administration, Healthcare Management, or a related educational connect.
• Typically, 12–15+ years of overall experience in US healthcare operations, provider enrollment, provider credentialing, payer enrollment, or closely related healthcare services functions, with substantial hands-on enrollment expertise.
• At least 5 years of senior leadership experience with responsibility for managing managers, multiple teams, or large-scale operational functions.
• Proven experience leading provider enrollment operations within a healthcare BPO, Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), Medical Service Organization (MSO), or healthcare services organization.
• Strong working knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, commercial payer enrollment, CAQH, PECOS, NPPES, and payer-specific enrollment portals and requirements.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-client operations, large enrollment volumes, complex payer workflows, and client-facing service delivery.
• Proven track record of improving operational KPIs, application accuracy, approval rates, turnaround time, backlog management, productivity, and client satisfaction.
• Experience in workforce planning, capacity management, operational budgeting, cost optimization, and performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage senior client escalations, executive governance meetings, and cross-functional stakeholder relationships.
• Experience leading process improvement, operational transformation, workflow automation, and technology-enabled efficiency initiatives.
• Excellent communication, analytical, strategic planning, decision-making, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• Experience leading large-scale provider enrollment and credentialing operations for multiple US healthcare clients.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between provider enrollment, payer participation, provider onboarding, billing readiness, and revenue cycle performance.
• Experience managing complex enrollment portfolios involving multiple payer types, states, provider specialties, and enrollment requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to translate operational data into actionable insights, performance improvement plans, and executive-level recommendations.
• Experience implementing process standardization, automation, workflow management systems, and data-driven operational controls.
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to balance client satisfaction, service quality, productivity, operating costs, and business growth.
• Proven capability in developing management teams, building leadership pipelines, and establishing a culture of accountability.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced healthcare services environment with geographically distributed teams and US-based stakeholders.
• A strategic, results-oriented leader capable of driving operational stability, scalable growth, and continuous transformation.

Work Requirements

• Work Location:

  Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

• Work Arrangement:

  Work from Office, 5 days per week.

• Shift:

  US night shift, aligned with applicable client and business requirements.
• The candidate must be comfortable managing senior-level operational ownership, executive client interactions, and geographically distributed teams.
• The role requires flexibility to participate in client governance meetings, address critical escalations, and support operational requirements aligned with US business hours.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

The Director will be accountable for establishing, monitoring, and improving performance against agreed operational and business targets across the following areas:

• Enrollment Turnaround Time:

  Timely processing and completion of enrollment activities against agreed SLAs, segmented by payer and enrollment type.

• First-Pass Accuracy:

  Percentage of enrollment applications submitted without avoidable internal errors, omissions, or rework.

• Enrollment Approval Performance:

  Approval rates, application rejection trends, and improvement in preventable rejection categories.

• Pending Application Backlog and Aging:

  Reduction of overdue applications, timely follow-ups, and effective management of payer-dependent pending cases.

• SLA Adherence:

  Achievement of contractual service delivery, reporting, follow-up, and escalation resolution commitments.

• Quality and Compliance:

  Application accuracy, documentation completeness, audit outcomes, and adherence to applicable payer and client requirements.

• Operational Productivity:

  Applications processed per FTE, workforce utilization, capacity management, and reduction in manual processing effort.

• Financial and Cost Efficiency:

  Operational cost per application, resource optimization, productivity improvements, and budget adherence.

• Client Satisfaction and Retention:

  Client feedback, escalation resolution, service delivery performance, and contribution to account stability and growth.

• People and Leadership Effectiveness:

  Employee retention, manager performance, succession readiness, workforce stability, and leadership development.

• Transformation and Automation:

  Delivery and adoption of approved process improvement and automation initiatives, supported by validated reductions in manual effort, rework, or processing time.

Performance targets will be established based on operational baselines, contractual SLAs, payer-specific requirements, application complexity, and organizational business objectives.

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