Quality Improvement Specialist

🕒 June 24

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Evergreen Nephrology

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💊 Pharmaceuticals

💰 $4.3M Venture Round on 2022-06

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Pharmaceuticals

Evergreen Nephrology is a company focused on transforming kidney care by empowering nephrologists to provide high-quality and personalized care to patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). By putting nephrologists at the forefront, the company provides them with financial backing, interdisciplinary clinical resources, analytical insights, and technology-enabled tools to improve patient outcomes and experience. Evergreen Nephrology collaborates with strategic partners to address healthcare challenges, including disparate electronic health records (EHRs), transplantation process visibility, and patient readmission risks. The company's co-founders, Adam Boehler and Abe Sutton, have been recognized for their contributions to kidney care models and organ procurement standards, reflecting a deep commitment to improving kidney care quality nationwide.

📋 Description

• Serve as a trusted partner to nephrology and primary or specialty practices on HEDIS and Stars expectations, documentation standards, and Evergreen’s value-based care priorities • Share and interpret quality reports, care gap lists, and dashboards, translating performance data into clear, practical improvement steps that align with Evergreen’s workflows and practice capabilities • Educate provider practices on documentation accuracy, coding completeness, and best practice workflows that directly impact HEDIS and Stars measure performance • Facilitate recurring meetings with providers and practice staff to review quality trends, resolve workflow barriers, and co-develop action plans for performance improvement • Support provider adoption of Pay-for-Performance (P4P) components related to HEDIS and Stars by clarifying incentives, expectations, and measure specifications • Identify risks or gaps affecting measure outcomes and escalate as appropriate, and partner with internal teams to drive timely intervention • Manage an assigned panel of patients, monitoring and prioritizing HEDIS and Stars care gaps across preventive care, chronic disease management, and coordination of care • Conduct proactive patient outreach through phone, electronic and other approved communication channels to educate, motivate, and support patients to complete screenings, labs, immunizations, specialty appointments, and other recommended care • Track outreach effectiveness, gap closure progress over time, and patient responsiveness, maintaining accurate and timely documentation of all patient interactions • Collaborate with Quality, Clinical Operations, Coding & Documentation, Practice Transformation, and Pharmacy to ensure payer aligned support for providers and patients • Participate in quality initiatives that are cross functional and designed to improve performance at scale

🎯 Requirements

• 1-2 years of experience in quality improvement, population health, provider engagement, or care coordination • Patient-facing outreach experience • Understanding of quality workflows, gap closure processes, and documentation requirements • Strong communication and relationship building skills • EMR proficiency and familiarity with healthcare technology tools • Intermediate skills with MS Office Suite of products including Outlook and Teams • Able to work effectively in a primarily remote environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off starting at 4 weeks for full-time employees • 12 paid holidays per year • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance, including an HSA with employer match • Reimbursement for continuing medical education for eligible roles • A 401(k) program where Evergreen matches up to 4% of contributions • Paid parental leave • A robust training and development program that starts with onboarding and continues throughout your career with Evergreen Nephrology