Description and Requirements
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assists in the development of strategic plans to ensure modern and efficient claims processing across the entire lifecycle with a focus on a unified, streamlined experience for both providers and operations staff
- Works closely with technology and business leadership to support the evolution and operation of a variety of digital claims capabilities on our modernization roadmap
- Analyzes project needs and determines people, process, and technology resources needed to meet objectives and achieve desired outcomes
- Ensures the successful completion of current and long-range department goals and objectives and monitors results on an ongoing basis, adjusting plans and performance expectations to achieve targeted performance improvement results
- Acts as a liaison between business and technology teams, ensuring accurate translation of ideas and concepts between the parties to align strategy
- Takes initiative, thinks analytically, and works independent of supervision as appropriate or needed
- Builds, manages, develops, and continuously improves the claims experience to meet the diverse and dynamic needs of a growing, evolving organization
- Develops an effective team through hiring, training, coaching, and providing ongoing and constructive feedback
- Communicates results to executive leadership using standardized reports, dashboards, and frequent verbal updates through participation in management meetings and operational review processes
- Develops, formulates, recommends, and implements decisions regarding policy, standards methods, procedures, and functions
- Ensures all NY state and federal compliance, audit and regulatory requirements are met
- Performs other duties as necessary or assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or equivalent work experience
- Prior experience instituting change initiatives within an operational unit
- Proven ability to develop strong interpersonal relationships with key stakeholders, with experience communicating and influencing at the senior leadership level.
- Successful track record developing creative, workable strategies and tactics to accomplish division, corporate and plan goals
- Work experience requiring written and verbal communication that is clear, concise, grammatically correct, and professional
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree or MBA from an accredited institution
- Experience in Provider Data Management, Provider Contract, and/or Provider Reimbursement Configuration
- Strong program management experience
- Experience with system migrations, such as migration to HealthEdge HealthRules Payer or HealthEdge Source platform
- Prior experience with claims and provider payment operations in a healthcare payor setting
- Experience setting departmental strategy, communicating, and influencing impact and progress to senior leadership
- Experience with Medicare/Medicaid and Commercial Healthcare
- Strong leadership capability with experience leading change, establishing a business strategy, setting performance targets/benchmarks and using metrics, team engagement protocols and innovative problem-solving techniques to drive execution of cost, quality and productivity areas for a large operation
- Demonstrated understanding and practical experience using Agile methodologies. Exposure to Scaled Agile (SAFe) preferred
Compliance & Regulatory Responsibilities: Noted above
License/Certification: N/A
Hiring Range*:
Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $150,800 - $230,690
All Other Locations (within approved locations): $124,400 - $190,315
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, licenses and certifications, and any other factors Healthfirst deems pertinent to the hiring decision.
In addition to your salary, Healthfirst offers employees a full range of benefits such as, medical, dental and vision coverage, incentive and recognition programs, life insurance, and 401k contributions (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Healthfirst believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package wherever its employees work and live.
*The hiring range is defined as the lowest and highest salaries that Healthfirst in “good faith” would pay to a new hire, or for a job promotion, or transfer into this role.