Description and Requirements
The Behavioral Health Care Manager (HIE) follows up with members who have visited the Emergency Department for Behavioral Health or Substance Use episode. You will plan and manage behavioral health, substance use, and/or physical care with members. After the ED episode, you will work collaboratively with them, their supports, providers, and health care team members. The Care Manager is responsible for applying care management principles when engaging members and addressing coordination of their health care services to provide an excellent member experience, address barriers, and improve their health outcomes. The Care Manager is assigned to all lines of businesses within Behavioral Health.
Duties and Responsibilities:
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- Advocates, informs, and educates beneficiaries on services, self-management techniques, and health benefits.
- Conducts assessments to identify barriers and opportunities for intervention.
- Generates referrals to providers, community-based resources, and appropriate services and other resources to assist and maintain of successful health outcomes.
- Liaise between service providers such as doctors, social workers, discharge planners, and community-based service providers to ensure care is coordinated and care needs are adequately addressed.
- Coordinates and facilitates with the multi-disciplinary health care team as necessary and ensures treatment is person-centered and maximizes member health outcomes.
- Assists in identifying opportunities for alternative care options based on member needs and assessments.
- Contributes to corporate goals through ongoing execution of member care needs.
- Documents all encounters with providers, members, and vendors in the appropriate system in accordance with internal and established documentation procedures; follows up as needed.
- Occasional overtime as necessary.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- NYS RN or
- LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, LMHC, LPC, licensed psychologist (any state) (3 years of work experience in a mental/behavioral health or addictions setting)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong interpersonal and assessment skills, especially the ability to relate well with seniors, their families, and community care providers, along with demonstrated ability to handle rapidly changing situations.
- Fluency in Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, or Cantonese.
- Knowledge and experience with the current community health practices for the frail adult population and cognitive impaired seniors.
- Experience managing member information in a shared network environment using paperless database modules and archival systems.
- Experience and knowledge of the relevant product line
- Relevant work experience preferably as a Care Manager
- Demonstrated ability to manage large caseloads and effectively work in a fast-paced environment
- Proficient with simultaneously navigating the Internet and multi-tasking with multiple electronic documentation systems
- Experience using Microsoft Excel with the ability to edit, search, sort/filter and other Microsoft and PHI systems
Hiring Range:
- Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $81,099 - $116,480
- All Other Locations (within approved locations): $71,594 - $106,080
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.