Our Mission
Expand contracting opportunities by maintaining a comprehensive network of credentialed providers located throughout the state that practice cost-effective medicine.
Maximize revenue and minimize costs by assisting physicians manage the business component of their practices and by making state-of-the-art software, practice management and other needed services available to members at competitive prices.
Elevate the status of physicians in the health care industry.
ASPA’s Management
Understanding the many factors that drive talented individuals to focus their life’s work in a particular area may not be fully understood. What is known is that commitment to an area of concentration is an essential ingredient of success. Commitment to serve the interests of physicians is the foundation of ASPA’s management staff.
Connie Richardson
Connie Richardson is the Executive Director for the Arizona State Physicians Association (ASPA) a position that she has held for the past 31 plus years. Connie has been successful in assuring that all ASPA contracted payors utilize, by delegation, ASPA’s primary source credentialing program. She also developed Quick Start, a credentialing application service designed to assist health care providers to obtain initial plan contracts and hospital privileges that streamline the hospital and plan reappointment process. ASPA CVO services have also developed and expanded under Connie’s leadership.
Connie is actively involved in IPA contract negotiations, ASPA membership recruitment and specialty network development. Her 42 years of varied years of experience in the health care industry includes physician office management, hospital business office management, AHCCCS plan administration in rural communities and HMO managed care administration. Connie is on the Board for TIPAAA (The IPA Association of America); an active member of the National and Arizona Medical Group Management Associations, Arizona Association of Medical Staff Services and the National Association of Medical Staff Services. She is also a member of the National Association of Professional Women.
