Director, PRS GMC Exchange

Details

• Department: Payor Contracting and Relation
• Schedule: Full-time, 8 hour day shift, Monday - Friday, Remote
• Facility: Ascension
  
  

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

Negotiate and review payer and direct employer contracts for the organization.

• Direct analysts in financial modeling specific to contracting efforts, ensuring negotiated outcomes meet desired objectives.
• Lead the development and contracting for value-based population health opportunities and new reimbursement models. Contracts include fee-for-service.
• Responsible for educating ministries on impact of changes in reimbursement methodology imposed by commercial payers and governmental agencies.
• Serve as a liaison between payers and ministry departments, hosting routine meetings with payers to resolve outstanding issues.
• Develop reports and reporting solutions specific to payer relations, managed care and contracting needs.
  
  

Requirements

Education:

• High School diploma equivalency with 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 3 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management.
  
  

Additional Preferences

Additional Preferences

• 5 years of managed care or contracting, including experience with provider relations, network development, and/or contract management, required.
• 5 years of direct contract red line experience, required.
• 5 years of proven negotiation skills and the ability to build strong relations with various health-care providers, preferred.
• 5 years of federal and state legislative environments, regulatory processes, and government health-care programs (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid) is required.
• Strong experience leading and managing teams, required.
• Strong Google Suite Professional experience, required.
• Strong organizational skills a must have.
• Strong interpersonal skills a must have
  
  

Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

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Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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