Introducing delegated signature authority for enrollment forms

You can now authorize Stedi to sign enrollment forms for you using delegated signature authority, eliminating over 90% of your team’s enrollment paperwork.

Why we built this

Transaction enrollment is the administrative process a provider must complete to exchange certain types of healthcare transactions with a payer. For example, all 835 ERAs require enrollment. Certain payers require enrollment for other transactions, such as 837 claims and 270/271 eligibility checks.

The enrollment process sometimes involves signing a PDF form before submission to a payer. This step can delay enrollments by days or even weeks as signature requests bounce between you and Stedi.

Delegated signature authority solves this by allowing Stedi to sign enrollment forms on your behalf. It removes overhead for your team and can remove days of delay from the enrollment process.

If you manage enrollments for multiple providers, delegated signature authority scales with you. You can onboard more providers faster with less operations work for your team.

How it works

1. You sign a one-time delegated signature authority agreement with Stedi.
   
   If you submit enrollments on behalf of providers, you’ll need to obtain delegated signature authority from your providers during onboarding. Stedi can provide you with a template form to use.
   
   

2. You submit enrollment requests using the Enrollments API, UI, or a bulk CSV upload.
   
   

3. When a payer requires a signature for enrollment:

   • We check if a delegated signature is allowed.
     
     Note: Some payers require the provider to sign directly. In those cases, delegated signatures aren’t allowed.

   • If so, we sign and submit the enrollment form without any additional involvement from you or your providers.

Next steps

Delegated signature authority is available on all paid Stedi plans.

To get started, contact Stedi support in your dedicated Slack or Teams channel.