Manager – Clinical Appeals and Grievances

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🗽 New York, Tennessee, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $88.4k - $149.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Healthfirst

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1993

🛡️ Insurance

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Insurance • Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance

Healthfirst is a health insurance provider dedicated to helping New Yorkers access affordable health coverage for individuals and families. With over 30 years of experience, Healthfirst offers a range of plans including Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, long-term care, and essential health plans. The company focuses on providing quality healthcare options, comprehensive benefits, and support to ensure members can maintain their health and well-being.

📋 Description

• Manages a team of specialists, with responsibility for goal and productivity management, coaching and counseling, performance management and other leadership responsibilities as assigned • Provides oversight in case research and provides advice as needed • Understands HF’s internal health plans’ policies and procedures to frame decisions • Interprets regulations to provide guidance to specialists on a daily basis • Ensures the timely resolution of cases and makes critical decisions • Focuses on clinical criteria for expedited cases • Helps standardize and optimize how Appeals and Grievances are routed • Determine best practices and strategically deploy approaches to meet production, compliance and quality targets • Works with leadership to establish and implement departmental goals, establish monthly goal review process and implement a plan of action for identified gaps • Provides guidance in the preparation of case preparation for Medical Director Review ensuring that all pertinent information (i.e. case summary, contract information, internal and external responses, diagnosis, and CPT codes and descriptions) has been obtained during investigation and is presented as part of the case • Has oversight in case preparation for Maximus Federal Services, Fair Hearing, and External Appeal through all levels of the appeal process • Assists in leading the AOR / WOL Outreach team in coordination with the supervisor • Works with Providers and DSE on educating providers in how to submit Appeals timely and accurately. • Maintains delegated vendor relationship and ensure vendor performance and compliance measures are met • Institutes and manages working relationships within various operational areas to identify and execute overall process improvements • Diagnoses and understands operational challenges in addition to skill gaps in order to provide leadership and management to the Appeals & Grievances team • Identifies trends and recommends solutions for improvement. • Drives the development of innovative tools, systems, and processes to assist in overall handling of Appeals & Grievances functions • Maintains knowledge of industry trends, best practices and protocols and collaborating with other parts of the enterprise to ensure general consistencies and enhancements • Additional duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent work experience • RN Experience with utilization management or appeals and grievance processing and compliance • Working experience in a fast-paced environment overseeing multiple priorities, tasks and/or teams • Proven track record of exercising independent thinking, ability to problem solve, understand process flows and correlating platforms to recommend and implement solutions • Experience preparing and delivering written and verbal information to multiple types of audiences • Demonstrated ability to build and foster effective relationships.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage • incentive and recognition programs • life insurance • 401k contributions