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Opening or expanding a facility
Payer strategy and participation support for healthcare facilities preparing to open, acquire, expand, add locations, or enter new markets.
Explore facility support →Managed care and provider network development
Remove the barriers to network participation, patient access, and cash flow.
Cypress brings seasoned leadership to payer strategy, contracting, implementation, and provider network development—without requiring every organization to carry a high-cost managed care executive year-round.
15 years
Established Cypress experience
Nationwide
Capability across the United States
22 years
Average consultant experience
Two distinct verticals
Specialized expertise for providers—and for the networks that serve them.
Our provider-side managed care work and payer-side network development are complementary areas of expertise, but they are not the same service.
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Strengthening payer contracts
Fractional managed care leadership for established facilities, physician groups, and provider organizations that need active, sustainable payer portfolios.
Explore payer support →03
Building provider networks
A separate, payer-facing vertical for health plans and independent PPO networks—from start-up builds to expansion and network-adequacy remediation.
Explore network development →Ownership from strategy to active participation.
Applications and signatures are milestones—not the finish line. Cypress follows through on credentialing, contracting, loading, implementation, and appropriate escalation within the engagement scope.
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Assess the market
Set realistic expectations around timing, network conditions, provider qualifications, and reimbursement.
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Lead the work
Coordinate the contracting process with consistent attention and informed payer communication.
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Confirm participation
Help move executed agreements toward loaded, active participation that supports patient admissions.
The human side of managed care
Experience matters. So does candor.
We tell clients the truth about market conditions, timing, and reimbursement—even when the answer is difficult.
Unrealistic promises waste critical time. Cypress is built around integrity, transparency, and predictability within the realities we can control.
Cypress combines experienced leadership with direct, practical collaboration throughout the engagement.