Manager, Clinical Contracting

Overview

The University of Utah is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience.

Our five hospitals and eleven clinics provide excellence in our comprehensive services, medical advancement, and overall patient outcomes. Responsibilities

Job Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Performs to required standards for job specific responsibilities and technical competencies.

Talent Management

Hiring, training, developing, and communicating with staff.

Financial Management

• Responsible for developing, monitoring and achieving budget goals.
• Manages labor and non-labor expenses to budget or flex budget.
• Manages revenue to budget to maximize potential revenue.

EPE / Service

• Responsible for patient satisfaction scores within assigned area(s).
• Responsible for upholding PROMISE standards of direct reports and team members.

Quality

• Responsible to achieve quality goals for assigned area(s).
• Manages and promotes continuous process improvements in assigned area(s).

Performance Management

• Responsible to provide staff feedback on performance, including on-time appraisals and coaching.
• Responsible to deal with conflicts in a proactive manner and to reach resolution in a timely manner.

Building Relationships

• Forms positive relationships with staff, peers, and senior leadership to support the mission, vision, values, and performance standards of the organization.
• Actively engages staff with updates and news as well as involving staff in decisions and work teams. Provides feedback and recognition when appropriate.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Comprehensive knowledge of healthcare managed care principles.
• Self-motivated with effective time-management skills.
• Working knowledge of healthcare financing and billing principles and operations.
• Knowledge of legal principles and contract language.
• High degree of effective oral and written communication skills.
• Working knowledge of various reimbursement methodologies including DRGs, per diem, RVUs.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Health Care Administration, Nursing, or a related field, or equivalency.
• Four years of progressively more responsible managed care and contract related experience.

Qualifications (Preferred)

Preferred

Master's degree in a related field, or equivalency.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.

This is a sedentary position that may exert up to 10 pounds and may lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

This position involves sitting most of the time and is not exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

Physical Requirements Carrying, Color Determination, Far Vision, Lifting, Listening, Manual Dexterity, Near Vision, Pulling and / or Pushing, Reaching, Sitting, Speaking, Standing, Walking

Multi-lingual Candidates Welcomed

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