Description and Requirements
The Manager, Appeals & Grievances is responsible for leading, operating, and advising a dynamic and fast-paced Appeals & Grievances team. This role works closely with multiple leaders in the organization to identify priority focus areas for Appeals & Grievances, to standardize and optimize processes, and to communicate performance to multiple stakeholders. In tandem with these efforts, this individual will oversee Internal and external production teams to ensure consistent production, high quality and to maintain compliance on all levels. This role will remain flexible while utilizing strategic thinking and creativity to address challenges in alignment with long term growth and profitability goals of Healthfirst.
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Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure management team is accurately monitoring performance through daily meetings, coaching, feedback, documentation and disciplinary actions in collaboration with the Intake Vendor.
- Help Standardize and Optimize in how Appeals and Grievances are routed
- Work with Providers and DSE on educating providers in how to submit Appeals timely and accurately.
- Assist in leading the AOR / WOL Outreach team in coordination with the supervisor
- Identify trends and recommend solutions for improvement.
- Determine best practices and strategically deploy approaches to meet production, compliance and quality targets and to perform all Appeals & Grievances tasks
- Manage, develop and engage team. Work with leadership to establish and implement departmental goals, establish monthly goal review process and implement a plan of action for identified gaps
- Maintain delegated vendor relationship and ensure vendor performance and compliance measures are met
- Institute and manage working relationships within various operational areas to identify and execute overall process improvements
- Build partnerships with business areas across and outside of operations to improve communication and responsiveness to multiple conflicting resource demands
- Diagnose and understand operational challenges in addition to skill gaps in order to provide leadership and management to the Appeals & Grievances team
- Focused on clinical criteria for expedited cases
- Drive the development of innovative tools and processes to assist in overall handling of Appeals & Grievances functions
- Working with the delegated vendor to identify opportunities to increase the rate in which SLA's are met
- Support use and updates of systems in place for delivery of quality of results
- Maintain knowledge of industry trends, best practices and protocols. Collaborate and share best practices with other units comprising the enterprise to ensure general consistencies and enhancements
- Additional duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent work experience
- Experience with appeals and grievance processing and compliance
- Experience building and managing a team and leading work processes in a fast-paced environment
- Experience preparing and delivering written and verbal information to multiple types of audiences
- Demonstrated ability to work well with others, understand process flows and correlating platforms, recommend options and implement solutions
- Experience setting direction for department and managing staff performance
- Experience managing multiple concurrent priorities.
- Proven ability to work across areas in an organization to yield results
Preferred Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in the healthcare appeals experience
- MBA or master's degree from an accredited institution with focus in training & development, education, business, or healthcare administration
- Leadership experience in an focus area of operational excellence or audit
- Management experience in an operational department within the healthcare industry focused on clinical leadership
- Experience developing strategy and processes for a department or function
- Experience managing vendors as an extension of a core team. Familiar with creating accountable ownership of a vendor team
Hiring Range:
- Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $100,900 - $145,775
- All Other Locations (within approved locations): $86,500 - $128,690
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.
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.