We Built DoxApply Because Small Hospitals
Deserve Better Tools

Doxapply exists because we saw a gap in the market that nobody seemed interested in closing. The privileging software industry is dominated by enterprise platforms built for large hospital networks with dozens of committee members, and full-time IT departments. These platforms work well for their intended audience, but they are a poor fit for the thousands of small hospitals, community clinics, and physician-founded practices that face the same regulatory requirements with a fraction of the resources.

We built DoxApply specifically for these facilities. Not by stripping down an enterprise product until it was affordable, but by starting from scratch with a clear design principle: make privileging manageable for a facility where the skeletal staff handles medical staff services alongside five other responsibilities.

Our focus is intentional. We understand the complexities of privileging for small facilities: lean staffing, tight budgets, regulatory pressure from CMS and Joint Commission, and the constant challenge of staying compliant while doing the work of many people. By specializing in this segment, we build deeper expertise and deliver a better product than any one-size-fits-all enterprise platform.

Our Commitments

Built for Small, Not Scaled Down

Every design decision, every feature priority, and every pricing choice at DoxApply starts with the same question: does this serve a small facility? We don't build for large hospital systems and then make a lite version. Our entire product is the version built for you.

Deep Regulatory Knowledge

We understand the privileging requirements that CMS and Joint Commission impose. We know what surveyors look for in a credentialing file, and our documentation standards are built around those expectations. This regulatory depth isn't a feature we bolted on; it's the foundation of the entire platform.

Compliance is Not Optional

We don't cut corners on regulatory compliance. DoxApply's documentation standards are aligned with CMS Conditions of Participation and Joint Commission Medical Staff Standards. When a surveyor reviews a file maintained in DoxApply, it should meet or exceed their expectations.

The Team

Dr. Uthaiah Kokkalera, MBBS, MD, MRCS (Ed), FACS

Co-Founder & CEO

Dr. Uthaiah Kokkalera is a board-certified surgeon with over two decades of clinical and hospital leadership experience. He trained in the United Kingdom, earning his MRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, before completing his surgical residency in the United States and a fellowship in Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center. He earned his FACS certification in 2007.

At Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, he has served as Director of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Chair of the Department of Surgery and President of the Medical Staff. He is a recognized Robotic Surgeon of Excellence by the internationally accredited Surgical Review Committee.

Having sat on both sides of the privileging table, as an applying physician and as a hospital leader, he built DoxApply to fix a process that has been broken for far too long.

Ratna Chengappa

Co-Founder & CTO

Ratna is a tech entrepreneur and investor with three decades of experience across enterprise technology and AI. A King's College London graduate with executive education from Harvard Business School and Oxford's Saïd Business School, he spent nearly five years as a Principal Consultant at SAP before co-founding his first venture in 2006, scaling it into a multi-million Euro enterprise serving Fortune 500 clients before a successful exit.

He has since built four ventures spanning ERP, SaaS, cybersecurity and AI-driven trading. As Co-Founder and CTO of DoxApply, he brings the technical architecture and product-building experience to turn a complex compliance workflow into something any small hospital can use from day one.

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