Quality Program Management & Performance Manager (Remote in NM)

Molina Healthcare•Long Beach, CA

4h•Remote

About The Position

The Quality Program Management and Performance Manager develops and implements new and existing healthcare quality improvement activities to maintain compliance with quality program requirements and reporting and monitoring for key quality program activities. Acts as a subject matter expert providing direction for project, program, and/or initiative related initiatives. Provides guidance within the department and/or collaboratively with other departments to ensure quality programs meet regulatory requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Min. 5 years of experience in healthcare with a minimum of 2 years of experience in health plan quality improvement, managed care, or equivalent experience
Demonstrated solid business writing experience
Operational knowledge and experience with Excel and Visio (flow chart equivalent)

Nice To Haves

Degree in Preferred field: Clinical Quality, Public Health, or Healthcare
5 years of experience in health plan quality management
Experience with data reporting, analysis, and/or interpretation

Responsibilities

Drives quality program management activities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
Acts as a subject matter expert and lead specialist to provide project-, program-, and/or initiative-related direction and guidance for other specialists within the department and/or collaboratively with other departments to ensure quality programs meet regulatory requirements
Implements key quality program activities that maintain quality compliance, including maintaining responsibility for preparing and finalizing quality program management committee and other meeting documentation, which capture thorough discussion and participation of attendees, follow-up actions, and next steps, in a clear and understandable way
Oversees higher complexity quality program management activities, which include preparation for quality improvement reports, audits, surveys, and other federal and state-required quality activities
Monitors and ensures that key quality activities are completed on time and accurately to present results to key departmental management and other Molina departments, and to formal committees and subcommittees as needed
Prepares narrative reports and works with departmental specialists (as appropriate) to interpret regulatory specifications, explain programs and results of programs, and document findings.
Maintains quality program management project plan to ensure state (and/or federal and NCQA-related) requirements are documented during the year
Works with the Manager and/or Director to maintain up-to-date addendums to quality policies and procedures that clearly document state-specific activities and requirements in collaboration with the national teams
Creates, manages, and/or compiles the required documentation to maintain critical quality improvement functions
Leads quality improvement activities, meetings, and discussions with and between other departments within the organization
Evaluates project/program activities and results to identify opportunities for improvement
Engages in problem solving and remediation of any escalations or gaps at the direction of the with Manager and/or Director
Other tasks, duties, projects, and programs as assigned
This position may require same-day out-of-office travel approximately 0 - 50% of the time, depending upon the location.
This position may require multiple days out of town overnight travel approximately 0 - 20% of the time, depending upon location.