Since it launched 13 years ago, Medical Provider Resources has known only Vicki Bond as its leader, and that’s now set to change.
Bond announced she plans to retire as CEO by year’s end after a tenure in which Medical Provider Resources more than doubled its employee count, added a key service line, and expanded the company’s presence in six states.
“It’s just been a wonderful journey for me and my career, and I’m looking forward to being the past CEO and friend of MPR,” Bond said.
Bond said the decision to step down was spurred by a desire to travel with her husband, Jack Bond – who retired as Wesley Medical Center’s longtime director of pharmacy in 2022 – and spend more time with the couple’s grandchildren in Kansas City.
Bond has since grown Medical Provider Resources into the largest medical credentialing and insurance enrollment company in Kansas. It now has 142 clients across Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Missouri, and Wyoming.
She said by providing a primary source-verified file to hospitals, the company serves as “the first line of patient safety.”
“You’re trying to make sure that the provider is who they say they are,” Bond said. “That they’re trained to do what they say they’re trained to do, that they graduated from that residency program, they graduated from that fellowship program. So your job is to make sure that the patient is protected.”
Bond added insurance provider enrollment services to the business in 2012, not long after the company’s launch. This is a much-needed service in enrolling providers into the insurance plans and maintaining that enrollment.
She is a 2022 Wichita Business Journal Executives of the Year honoree, whose community impact includes her founding the locally based Raise My Head Foundation, which helps women who have been victims of human trafficking.
Medical Provider Resources has been honored as one of the WBJ’s Best Places to Work multiples times, most recently in 2021. It has grown from less than 10 employees when it started 11 years ago to 24 employees now.
“I am going to miss my team,” she said. “It’s just going to be so tough, because it becomes your extended family.”
