Senior Manager Payment Integrity (Omaha)

Description

The Senior Manager, Payment Integrity is responsible for the teams who focus on Prepayment and Post Payment reviews related to waste / error and primary and secondary editing vendors. The primary focus of these team members and vendors are to ensure appropriate provider claim payment. The position will include visibility to senior leadership through reporting of results and trending of findings and savings month over month. This position will be responsible for reverse engineering vendor savings, identifying medical cost leakage, share insight and absorb information that may lead to future findings and / or expansion opportunities. The duties of this position will have oversight and responsibility for communicating team results and working collaboratively to drive improvements through trending of pre-payment solutions, recoveries, the accuracy of claims payment, volume of claims adjustments, impact to provider service, degree of financial liability, and impact to provider billing pattern changes. In addition, this position will be responsible for new payment integrity related implementations are successful. Performs other duties as assigned.

This is a working Manager position and may require the candidate to perform, review or summarize audits and includes training incoming staff on audit practices and procedures.

Key Performance Indicators : 1) Payment Waste and Errors initiative concept innovation 2) Support of Claim Cost Management Initiatives 3) Implementing strategies, with leadership, to achieve Medica's objectives in claims payment accuracy and prevention of Error and Waste overpayments; 4) Working with Director to escalate decision making around payment accuracy and Waste and Error strategy across multiple internal stakeholders; and 5) Executing on corrective action plans related to Errors and Abuse

Key Accountabilities :

Department Management

• Development, monitoring and reporting of goals and metrics for waste and error reviews and effectiveness.
• Achievement of department production goals
• General management duties (coaching, team, staff and 1 : 1 meetings, issue identification, escalation and resolution, performance measurement
• Department recruitment, selection, retention and performance improvement in coordination with department director
• Perform annual performance reviews
• Develop and maintain staff morale and promote teamwork.
• Provide recognition to staff through the reward and recognition programs
• Coach, encourage and facilitate individual growth and development through specific, timely and consistent feedback
• Provide technical support to staff by assisting them timely. Guide them to other appropriate resources, if needed. Ensure they receive the training needed to help them be successful in their daily roles as well as provide them opportunities for growth
• Collaborate with the team to create and maintain department policies, procedures and swim lanes
• Assure processes are established between Medica, post-pay compliance vendors, the claims processing vendors, and editing system vendors.
• Continue to build and expand into new areas and vendors for payment integrity identification and resolution.
• Oversee and ensure successful implementations of any new payment integrity related processes and / or vendors.

Auditing and Reporting

Recovery Oversight & Vendor Management

Department Representation

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Skills and Abilities :

This position is an Office role, which requires an employee to work onsite, on average, 3 days per week. We are open to candidates located near one of the following office locations : Minnetonka, MN, Madison, WI, Omaha, NE, or St. Louis, MO.

The full salary range for this position is $87,100 - $149,300. Annual salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and / or licensure, the position's scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data. In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for incentive plan compensation in addition to base salary. Medica offers a generous total rewards package that includes competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services and many other benefits to support our employees.

The compensation and benefits information is provided as of the date of this posting. Medica's compensation and benefits are subject to change at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer, where all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.

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