Senior Contract Specialist, Contract Configuration - Hybrid

Emblem Health • New York, NY

33d • Hybrid

About The Position

Responsible for timely and accurate load of all Professional, Facility, and Ancillary contracts across all EmblemHealth lines of business. Serve as a subject matter expert in all areas of contract configuration, fee schedules/groupers, and rate reimbursement. Develop workflows and business processes to ensure efficient interaction with Network Development, Analytics, and other business areas to facilitate accurate translation and maintenance of contractual agreements into NetworX. Serve as the subject matter expert in NetworX.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Business Operations, Information Systems or related.
• 3 - 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably in a health care environment (Required)
• Additional experience or specialized training may be considered in lieu of educational requirements (Required)
• Strong familiarity with EmblemHealth's claims systems and interdependent applications (Required)
• Experience in provider, facility, and ancillary contract files set‐ups, maintenance, testing and auditing functions (Required)
• Experience in establishing and accomplishing business strategies to successfully translate contractual language into system reimbursement specifications (Required)
• Excellent knowledge of medical terminology, Fee Schedules, and ICD/CPT/HCPCS coding (Required)
• Understanding of Government reimbursement methodologies (Required)
• Strong attention to detail; strong organizational, analytic, technical, and problem‐solving skills (Required)
• Proficient with MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, etc. (Required)
• Strong communication skills - verbal, written, presentation, interpersonal) with all types/levels of audiences (Required)

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of provider, facility, and ancillary rate configurations within NetworX in accordance with set deadlines, while ensuring full accuracy of contract loads.
• Collaborate with Network Management and Analytics to ensure proper capture of negotiated and modeled contractual agreements.
• Responsible for the identification and correction of rate load problems.
• Serve as a subject matter expert with all contract configuration, fee schedule / grouper, and rate reimbursement matters.
• Analyze negotiated contracts to determine NetworX interaction with the core systems, ensuring that reimbursement is in line with negotiated intent.
• Coordinate with Network Management to ensure timely update of all evergreen contracts.
• Recommend contract language changes to align with system reimbursement capabilities.
• Coordinate with all EmblemHeatlh towers on related NetworX issues.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees