The arizona association of health plans is dedicated to working with elected officials, the arizona health care containment system (ahcccs), health care plans, health care providers and consumers to keep quality health care available and afforadable for all arizonans.

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The organization with its' member health plans actively participates in the legislative process and identified areas of savings and cuts for arizona. These activities included thorough review of medicaid benefit package, to identify potential reductions that save money while not impacting the health of the population. the association worked to develop guidelines for program integrity to identify over billing, fraud, and over utilization and report those to the medicaid regulator for the state of arizona. the organization added the program of credentialing for the providers who are included in the ahcccs program. The program require physicians and other medical practitioners to be credentialed in order for services to patients to be covered by ahcccs. The health care providers are required to be re-credentialed every three years.