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Kearny Street Management
Provider Network Development
Brief · Page 1 of 3
Provider networks, built to hold

Your network is a promise to members.
We make sure you can keep it.

Health plans, IPAs, and risk-bearing organizations bring us in when a provider network has to get built, fixed, or made adequate — usually on a regulatory clock, and usually with no room to miss.

The problem you know too well

The strategy deck is the easy part. Real builds stall around week six — contracting hits a wall, credentialing runs long, provider data drifts, and the directory stops matching reality. Meanwhile the filing window doesn’t move.

You feel it as a quiet dread: too many moving parts, no single owner, and a deadline that decides whether you enter a market this year or next.

What’s at stake

A missed adequacy standard can slip a market by a full year. A thin directory becomes an access complaint. A stalled build becomes a board conversation about credibility.

Networks aren’t a slide deck. They’re signed contracts and verified providers — delivered on time, or not at all.

The solution — one firm, end to end

You don’t need five vendors and a project manager to coordinate them. You need one team that owns the network from strategy through go-live — and then hands it back running independently. That’s the whole of what we do. Two decades doing exactly this, on both the payer and the provider sides, so we can see the deal from both chairs.

770.329.9823 dsmith@ksmnetwork.com kearnystreet.com
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Kearny Street Management
Provider Network Development
Brief · Page 2 of 3
What we do

Four capabilities, one accountable team.

Most network problems live in the seams between functions. We hold all four, so nothing falls through the handoffs.

Network Strategy & Adequacy

We model where members live against CMS and state time-and-distance standards, find the gaps before regulators do, and target the specific providers that close them — so you pass adequacy on the first submission, not the third.

Provider Contracting

Outreach, rate conversations, redlines, and signatures. We move agreements from 'interested' to executed, with clean, defensible language and a rate posture that holds up when the market gets competitive.

Credentialing & Compliance

Primary-source verification, CAQH hygiene, and committee-ready files that keep the go-live date from slipping. Available bundled with a build — or as a standalone service when credentialing is your only bottleneck.

Network Operations

Directory accuracy, provider-data operations, and a weekly operating cadence that keeps the network adequate after launch — then a documented hand-back so your team runs it without us.

Credentialing without the full build. Already have the contracts but drowning in verification? We run credentialing as a standalone engagement — the same committee-ready rigor, scoped to just the bottleneck.

770.329.9823 dsmith@ksmnetwork.com kearnystreet.com
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Kearny Street Management
Provider Network Development
Brief · Page 3 of 3
How we work

A simple plan, executed on a cadence.

We listen to the opportunity, map a plan, and execute it — with named owners, real dates, and a weekly cadence you can see.

1
Diagnose

A two-week read of your network, your gaps, and the honest path to adequacy — before anyone signs a long engagement.

2
Build

Contracting and credentialing executed in parallel against a live tracker, so the critical path never goes dark.

3
Operate & hand back

Go-live, a documented operating cadence, and a clean transfer so your team runs the network confidently.

Proof, briefly

An independent orthopedic ASC needed a national payer relationship and an implant-purchasing arrangement to make a total-joints line viable. We led the strategy, the contracting, and the operational stand-up — and the line went live on schedule, adequate and payable from day one.

“They made a complex build feel simple — and handed it back running.” — Kearny Street Management engagement

What winning looks like
  • On-time market launches — no last-minute scramble
  • Adequacy met at first submission
  • Clean, defensible contracts and credentialing files
  • A network your team can run without us
Start with a Diagnostic.

Two weeks to a clear read on your network and the path to adequacy — with no long commitment to find out.

Talk to our team
770.329.9823
dsmith@ksmnetwork.com
kearnystreet.com