Practice start-up · Credentialing · Contracting · Revenue cycle
PPS helps physicians and provider groups open, credential, contract, and run their practices. Experienced, US-based specialists and a plan built around your practice, from your first business decision to your next stage of growth.
Experienced people. Practical next steps. Explore PPS consulting
Branches What patients and payers see
Roots Six business foundations
Real people behind your practice Branch / Patient access
Patient interest becomes a healthy practice when people can find you, reach you, and get an appointment.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
Practice planning and consulting help connect patient demand, capacity, and the workflows behind access.
Explore practice consultingBranch / Provider readiness
A prepared provider needs the right credentials, payer participation, and a coordinated path to seeing patients.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
PPS supports credentialing, payer enrollment, and ongoing maintenance throughout a provider’s time with your practice.
Explore credentialingBranch / Revenue cycle
Reliable billing and follow-up help the work of caring for patients sustain the practice that delivers it.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
Revenue cycle support helps your team work through billing, collections, and the issues that delay payment.
Explore revenue cycle supportBranch / Financial health
A clear view of cash, costs, and results helps you spot pressure early and make more informed decisions.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
Practice consulting and payer contract evaluation bring experienced support to your business decisions.
Explore practice consultingRoot / Market & patient demand
A strong foundation starts with understanding your community, its needs, and how patients will find and choose your practice.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
PPS start-up work connects practice planning, location, and patient acquisition to the practice you want to build.
Explore practice start-upRoot / Financial resilience
An opening budget and realistic cash plan create room for the time between getting ready, seeing patients, and getting paid.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
PPS helps connect start-up budgets and financial projections to your opening plan and ongoing business decisions.
Explore start-up planningRoot / Payer access & economics
Who you participate with, what your agreements cover, and how you are paid shape the foundation beneath your revenue.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
PPS brings credentialing, enrollment, contract evaluation, and negotiation together around your payer strategy.
Explore payer supportRoot / People & accountability
Healthy foundations depend on prepared people, clear responsibilities, and dependable coverage when circumstances change.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
Practice start-up and consulting support help you plan staffing, responsibilities, and the handoffs behind daily work.
Explore practice consultingRoot / Systems & information
Scheduling, clinical, billing, and reporting systems need to work together so problems are visible and decisions are informed.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
PPS helps practices plan EHR and billing setup, connect workflows, and work through operational decisions.
Explore practice setupRoot / Business & governance
Business setup, policies, and recurring obligations need clear ownership from the start, and attention as your practice changes.
Example measures, chosen for your practice.
PPS start-up and consulting support helps coordinate business setup, policies, and compliance responsibilities with your advisors.
Explore start-up supportWhat PPS does
Choose the support you need now. Each service connects to the others, so the work stays coordinated as your practice opens, runs, and grows.
Business planning, budgets, location analysis, entity setup coordination, and a launch plan that sequences the payer, people, and systems work.
Start a practiceMedicare, Medicaid, and commercial payer enrollment, CAQH, licensing and DEA support, and the maintenance that keeps providers participating.
Get providers readyContract and fee schedule evaluation, negotiation strategy, and reimbursement review as your payer mix and services change.
Strengthen your agreementsBilling, collections, denial follow-up, and reporting that turn delivered care into collected revenue.
Get paid for the care you deliverExperienced help with the business decisions behind operations, staffing, growth, and performance.
Work through what comes nextWebsites, branding, and online presence that help patients find, understand, and choose your practice.
Help patients find youNot sure where to start?
Experienced people. Focused support.
Your practice brings its own goals, pressures and possibilities. PPS helps you work through the business decisions behind patient care, with experienced consultants and a scope built around your needs.
From your first practice plan to payer negotiations and operational improvements, start with a conversation about what matters most to you.
Explore practice consultingWhere can we help?
01Connect your budget, location, payer strategy and operational setup.
Practice start-up →Review your agreements and prepare a focused negotiation strategy.
Payer contracting →Assess business priorities, operational challenges and plans for growth.
Practice consulting →A conversation first. A defined scope. Support from the PPS team.
The foundations of a healthy practice
Your root system starts taking shape before your first patient arrives. Establish each foundation, know what it needs, and keep tending it as your practice grows.
Know whom you serve, and why they will choose you.
Practice planning · Location · Website & marketing
Define your patient community, care offering, location, and route to your first appointments.
As you growRevisit demand, referral relationships, and patient acquisition when you add capacity.
Give the practice room to establish itself and adapt.
Start-up budget · Pro forma · Cash planning
Connect opening costs and expected collections to a realistic operating plan.
As you growReview cash needs and assumptions before committing to more staff, space, or services.
Build the relationships that support reimbursement.
Credentialing · Enrollment · Contracting
Coordinate provider and practice enrollment with payer agreements and opening plans.
As you growReview participation, reimbursement, and payer mix as your practice changes.
Make sure essential work has a capable owner.
Staffing plan · Roles · Training
Define responsibilities, prepare your team, and establish how work moves between people.
As you growRevisit capacity, training, and backup coverage so growth does not create fragile handoffs.
Connect the tools that turn care into a working business.
EHR selection · Billing setup · Reporting
Prepare scheduling, clinical, billing, and payment workflows to work together. Agree on useful measures, who reviews them, and how often.
As you growCheck data quality, review changes in performance, and revisit whether your measures still guide the decisions that matter.
Give the practice a structure it can depend on.
Business setup · Policies · Compliance coordination
Coordinate business setup, required registrations, policies, and responsibility for ongoing obligations.
As you growKeep ownership, reviews, and renewals current as people, locations, and services change.
Confirm the foundations are ready, with clear owners and evidence behind each milestone.
Check that the pieces work together, from the first appointment through the payment process.
Review root health as conditions change. Opening-day readiness is a starting point.
How PPS works with you
Next available appointment, enrollment effective dates, claim denials, cash on hand. Pick the handful that tell you whether the practice is healthy, and name who owns each one.
Record where you stand today, then review the same numbers on a schedule you will keep: weekly for operations, monthly for finances.
When something moves, find the cause, decide the response, and give one person the job of carrying it out.
Look at fresh evidence, keep what worked, and adjust as your practice, your team, and your payers change.
Bring what you have. A PPS specialist will help you pick a starting set and the schedule to review it.
Your practice. Our people.
Meet some of the PPS specialists you may work with. The full team spans service delivery, onboarding, credentialing, contracting, and consulting.
VP of Service Delivery
Onboarding Manager
Onboarding Trainer, Credentialing Specialist
Credentialing Manager
Credentialing Specialist
Credentialing Manager & Consultant
The PPS free resource library
Explore the free tools, checklists, templates and guides that help practices take the next step.
Provider readiness
Understand how credentialing, contracting, and payer enrollment fit together.
Read the explanationYour practice foundations
Explore planning, documentation, and the sequence of decisions ahead.
Explore the start-up guidePractice performance
Start with the measures that reveal pressure, progress, and where attention is needed.
Explore the approachThe essentials, explained
A new practice needs a clear market and patient strategy, financial resources, payer access, prepared people, working systems, and business governance. These foundations depend on one another. PPS helps coordinate practice start-up decisions and supports ongoing operations as the practice grows.
Patient demand, payer relationships, team capacity, costs, and business obligations change over time. Regularly reviewing the measures that matter helps you identify pressure early, respond with purpose, and build a more resilient practice.
PPS offers medical credentialing, provider enrollment, and payer contract evaluation and negotiation. Together, these services help establish and maintain the payer relationships behind participation and reimbursement.
PPS offers credentialing maintenance, revenue cycle management, practice start-up, and business consulting. The scope of support is defined around each practice’s needs, goals, and stage of growth.
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The roots represent six business foundations; the branches represent patient access, provider readiness, revenue cycle, and financial health. Select a part to explore why it matters, examples of measures to monitor, and how PPS can help. The illustration explains how the parts of a practice depend on each other. It does not display live practice results.
A clearer view starts with a conversation
Let’s talk about where you are, what you want to understand, and the support that could help you move forward.
Talk with the PPS team.Wherever your practice is today.