VP-Region Payer Contracting

Vice President Of Payer Contracting

Ascension is seeking a Vice President of Payer Contracting to lead regional payer strategy and revenue performance. This role offers the opportunity to shape reimbursement models, strengthen payer relationships, and drive growth across multiple markets.

Department : Payor Contracting and Relations

Location : Remote

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, location and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

Lead payer contracting and relations across a defined region encompassing multiple market ministries. Set revenue strategies and achieve payer contracting and revenue objectives.

Provide leadership for contracting processes and payer relations throughout the region and its markets.

Implement enterprise standards and processes to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and strategies.

Assess opportunities for optimizing overall revenue across the payer product lines and network platform hierarchy.

Partner with Data Analytics to measure value, essentiality and desirability in payer networks, developing strategies to better measure and improve them. Align national, regional and ministry strategic plans.

Monitor and analyze financial results focused on net patient services revenue performance.

Maintain knowledge on percent of charge models and charge captures, prospective payment systems, and fixed fee schedules. Understand the current and desired levels of reimbursement and growth among inpatient, hospital outpatient, physician / clinic, ambulatory surgery centers, and ancillary community services.

Build relationships with executive leadership. Partner with Managed Care market teams on relationships with ministry leadership.

Requirements

Education :

Associate's degree / Bachelor's degree with 7 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 4 of those years being in leadership / management.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

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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